MVP Award
Received my notification via email this morning that I've been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. It's been...
2009-01-01
736 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Joel Spolsky on servant leadership
With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...
2008-12-29
1,617 reads
Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line
Back in October I had the opportunity to work with Andy Warren and do a series of SQL Server security...
2008-12-17
1,401 reads
SQL Quiz Part 2 - Career Challenges
Another diabolical idea of Chris Shaw. I'm actually late to the game because I got tagged a week ago by...
2008-12-16
985 reads
Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs
I've been off-line except for hints here and there for the last couple of weeks due to fighting off an...
2008-12-04
1,074 reads
Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything
Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...
2008-12-04
858 reads
MSSQLTips.com: Connecting to SQL Server with a Bad Logon Trigger
Shortly after I gave my presentation Trigger Happy Database Security down in Jacksonville for SQL Saturday #3, I received an...
2008-11-20
857 reads
Voting for the PASS Board
I got the email with a Zoomerang survey to vote for the PASS board. All are excellent candidates, but ultimately,...
2008-11-18
941 reads
Midlands PASS December Meeting - Virtualization Everything
Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...
2008-11-18
573 reads
MSSQLTips.com: How to Audit SysAdmin Logins
One of the first things I tried to do when logon triggers came out with Service Pack 2 of SQL...
2008-11-14
2,587 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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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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