Microsoft Has a New Testing Mechanism - Not a Sim
It looks like Microsoft is working with Prometric to put out a different way of testing for certification. Basically, it's...
2008-07-31
1,354 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Reminder - Midlands PASS August Meeting
Speaker: Darren Herbold
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 7, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 7,...
2008-07-31
1,830 reads
Panel Interview Part III Posted
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, Part III of the SQL Server panel interview has been posted on-line. A name I...
2008-07-30
1,721 reads
SQL Server Panel Interview
I was asked by Odin Jobs to participate in an email interview on SQL Server. Joining me on the panel...
2008-07-29
2,010 reads
Midlands PASS August Meeting
Speaker: Darren Herbold
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 7, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 7,...
2008-07-24
1,584 reads
Reminder - Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting - July 17 - MVP John Welch
The Midlands PASS Chapter hosts:
SQL Server MVP John Welch
July 17, 2008 at Training Concepts
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a...
2008-07-16
631 reads
Community Megaphone Site for User Group Announcements
If you're looking to advertise your user group meetings, code camps, SQL Saturdays, etc., there a site that's trying to...
2008-07-10
565 reads
Contact Me Disabled
I've been getting spammed like crazy through the Contact Me link. As a result, I've had to disable it. If...
2008-07-10
612 reads
Midlands PASS Meeting - July 17 - SQL Server MVP John Welch
The Midlands PASS Chapter hosts:
SQL Server MVP John Welch
July 17, 2008 at Training Concepts
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a...
2008-07-03
717 reads
Off-Topic: Microsoft Marketing
I saw a blog post by Robert Hensing talking about Microsoft's new GPS product and its very uncreative name. This...
2008-06-17
1,882 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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