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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - Pee Dee...
2009-04-07
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Midlands PASS Meeting Tonight!
Next Meeting - April 2, 2009
SPEAKER:Paul S. Waters
During Paul’s 16 years of working in IT, he has held a variety of...
2009-04-02
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SQL Server Authentication Modes and Surface Area Test
One of the videos I did for JumpStart TV is up on the front page:
SQL Server Authentication Modes
It is an...
2009-03-16
1,138 reads
Microsoft March Security Bulletin Release
This month there were 3 security bulletins released and 1 re-released:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2009
First, let's tackle the...
2009-03-10
1,199 reads
[Off-Topic] Eleven Year-Old Making a Difference
Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a...
2009-03-09
1,015 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having...
2009-03-06
13,037 reads
Adobe Flash Player Update Available
There is an Adobe Flash Player available to address a security issue. The bulletin shows as being released February 24,...
2009-03-06
1,319 reads
Three Operating System (Windows) patches due on Tuesday
Microsoft's advance security bulletin has come out and it looks like they are planning on releasing 3 security bulletins on...
2009-03-06
690 reads
Owning an Object in SQL Server 2005/2008
One of the things that we have to re-learn when going from SQL Server 2000 to 2005/2008 is that objects...
2009-03-04
6,663 reads
First Impressions of the Kindle 2
As I blogged about previously, I had decided to go ahead and pre-order the Kindle 2. It was slated for...
2009-02-27
1,542 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?
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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