Before You Begin Auditing...
There is a fine line between auditing and attacking. The line actually is one built based on authorization. Same tools,...
2010-07-06
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Why I Use Social Media
Yesterday was a scary time for the Kelley family. Our youngest, our five year-old daughter, suddenly had a rash everywhere....
2010-07-01
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SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia, SC - Registration and Call for Speakers is On-line
The website is up for SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia. We're holding it on October 2, 2010, in West Columbia, SC,...
2010-06-30
1,436 reads
First Performance Virtual Chapter Webcast
Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Tim Edwards (twitter | blog), our fearless leader, and the rest of the crew, the PASS...
2010-06-28
894 reads
So I Won't Be Going to the Summit This Year
As the deadline for abstracts to be submitted to the PASS Summit came due, I made the hard decision not...
2010-06-16
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A Greek Tragedy
This is just tragic. Thanks to Brent Ozar (twitter | blog) for posting it.
Idera web site hit by SQL injection attack
The...
2010-06-11
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Overcoming Your Limits
As I age in years, I realize more and more how blessed I was to attend The Citadel, the Military...
2010-06-08
1,266 reads
Slides from SQL Server Auditing Class
Here are the slides from the SQL Server Auditing Class held on June 2, 2010.
Hour 1 - Attacking SQL Server
Hour 2...
2010-06-03
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Providing Quality to the Community
This has been on my mind since last week after a conversation with a friend of mine, Bobby Dimmick (twitter)....
2010-05-19
1,189 reads
Microsoft Certified Architect - Infrastructure and Solutions Are No More
A friend of mine had been out to the Microsoft Certified Architect site recently and noted that the Infrastructure and...
2010-05-14
1,962 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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