Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
When It "Has" to Use SA...
As an infrastructure and security architect, I cringe any time any one mentions the following:
Domain AdminrootsaThose accounts can do anything...
2010-03-19
646 reads
New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media
Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA:
In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages...
2010-03-18
697 reads
Working for/with High Caliber Folks
Within a couple of days of each other, both Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) and Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) tweeted about possible job opportunities which would...
2010-03-12
1,856 reads
Upgraded to Model
That's right, folks, I'm now a model. Or at least, a model DB. Tom LaRock released his most recent rankings and...
2010-03-10
569 reads
PASS Summit to Stay in Seattle
PASS has released the survey results as well as its decision about where to hold future Summit events. The decision...
2010-03-10
1,982 reads
Focus on Your Passion
Tuesday night I was having a conversation with my younger son, whom we call Turtle. It's a nickname that came...
2010-03-04
1,084 reads
Baby Steps to Learning Something New
I had a really bad habit of trying to jump into the middle of something I didn't know very well,...
2010-03-03
4,808 reads
Personal "Failure" Is Just a Result
I'm reading a book by two teens called Do Hard Things. It's a book which represents a rejection of the...
2010-03-02
978 reads
Plan for Failure
Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...
2010-02-24
1,019 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...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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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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