Re-Awarded MVP for 2011
I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...
2011-01-01
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
2010 - A Year without Specific Goals
In previous years I had set goals and even if I didn't fully achieve them, they were helpful in giving...
2010-12-31
2,100 reads
Fashionably Late, but She's Here!
I'm pleased to announce the latest addition to the Kelley family, a beautiful baby girl born at 11:56 PM last...
2010-12-21
713 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 20, 2010
Monday
PASS Data Warehousing/BI Virual Chapter - SSIS + CDC = SCD - Patrick LeBlanc
Tuesday
Pragmatic Works - Introduction to Performance Tuning Analysis Services 2008 - Chris Webb
Thursday
Pragmatic...
2010-12-17
838 reads
Giving Thanks
I often say I am where I am in the community because of other folks. As we approach the close...
2010-12-16
726 reads
PASS Election Review Committee - We Need Your Input!
The PASS Election Review Committee has geared up and we've started looking at the process of the entire election process...
2010-12-15
1,097 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #13 – What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Steve Jones (blog | twitter) and the topic he proposes is: "What issues have you...
2010-12-14
1,299 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 13, 2010
I may end up missing this one next week... it all depends on when the baby comes. 🙂
Tuesday
PASS Application Development...
2010-12-10
1,016 reads
Facebook and E-Mail Security for a New Teenager
Cross-posted from a Goal Keeping DBA blog:
Just recently, my oldest son entered the ranks of the teenagers. I shouldn’t actually...
2010-12-07
2,062 reads
The Basics of Troubleshooting
After seeing several cases in the past couple of months where I felt the basics of troubleshooting were violated, I...
2010-12-06
2,220 reads
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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