Columbia Code Camp!
The Midlands of South Carolina will be hosting a Code Camp on January 30, 2009. You can register as an...
2009-11-30
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
More on DBAs and Local Administrator Rights
I'm looking over the comments about DBAs and local Administrator rights and I noticed an interesting trend: no one discussed...
2009-11-25
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Planning Out a Holiday Weekend
I've got a four day weekend thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. After reading Jazz in...
2009-11-24
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Raising a Technology Savvy Daughter
I was introduced to electronics at a very young age. I think I was three when I first started doing...
2009-11-23
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Should DBAs have local administrator rights?
This was actually spurred by a post from Ted Krueger (@onpnt), which led to a short, but hearty, discussion on...
2009-11-20
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Why We Recommend Against xp_cmdshell
Every so often I see a post in a forum or on Twitter about the use of xp_cmdshell. Usually it is someone looking for...
2009-11-13
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SQL Server Wish: Last Logon Information
The other day my wife and I were driving around and noticed that a Little Caesar's location had shown up...
2009-11-10
8,739 reads
Always Striving to Improve
I'm enjoying a relaxing Saturday morning and I'm doing a bit of reading on ESPN. I see the article about...
2009-11-07
863 reads
OFF-TOPIC: Surviving, Missing Folks, Glad I'm Home
I certainly wish circumstances were different and I would have been able to attend the PASS Summit this week. I...
2009-11-06
732 reads
Not Attending/Presenting at SQL Connections
Given everything that has happened in the last couple of weeks, this is not surprising to those who have kept...
2009-10-31
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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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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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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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