Successful Teams: Capable Backups
No, not backups as in SQL Server backups, but who to tag when someone is out or so slammed with...
2010-11-05
2,096 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 8, 2010
Tuesday
PASS - Day One Opening Keynote (Ted Kummert) Live Stream
Wednesday
PASS - Day Two Keynote (Quentin Clark) Live Stream
PASS - Women in Technology Luncheon...
2010-11-05
726 reads
Slides and Example Code for SQL Lunch #42 - Auditing Database Permission in SQL Server
As promised, here are the slides and sample code from my SQL Lunch presentation today. Thanks for all who came...
2010-11-04
685 reads
Successful Teams: Everyone Performs
By day I'm a DBA. Nights and weekends I'm a junior high youth pastor and Awana commander. I have the...
2010-11-03
1,472 reads
Rescheduled: SQL Lunch #42 - Auditing Database Permissions in SQL Server
Last Wednesday I woke up feeling under the weather with a hoarse voice. I wasn't up to doing the presentation...
2010-11-01
706 reads
Why You Should Vote for My SQLRally Pre-Con
Self-marketing is not my strong suit. I don't feel very comfortable doing it, but Andy Warren (twitter | blog) suggests that we...
2010-10-29
2,483 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 1, 2010
Tuesday
PASS Performance Virtual Chapter - Five Fast Fixes for Fatal Flaws - Brent Ozar
Wednesday
SQL Lunch - Data Mining in SQL Server and Power...
2010-10-29
1,813 reads
Postponing SQL Lunch Presentation Until Next Week
I woke up this morning about 3 AM with clogged sinuses and a fever. Great. The changing weather patterns that...
2010-10-27
634 reads
Have You Grabbed the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Yet?
I won't say I despise SQL Server Management Studio's (SSMS) display for execution plans, but it's about at that level....
2010-10-27
1,251 reads
Why CONTROL SERVER Doesn't Cut It
With the new securables since SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has advised that we start moving away from the fixed server...
2010-10-26
4,544 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
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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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