Technical Podcasts I Listen To
There are a few podcasts I tend to listen to as I have time. Since I work with a wide...
2008-05-19
4,044 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Giving a Presentation?
As a president of a local PASS chapter, one of the things I've struggled with is getting "locals" to give...
2008-05-17
676 reads
Setting Static Ports when dealing with Named Instances and Kerberos
I ran across this a week or so ago. There were a couple of SQL Servers running named instances that...
2008-05-17
10,641 reads
Give Back: Donate Your Hair for Children in Need
While this will remain a primarily technical blog, one thing I'm going to try and add is each Saturday I'll...
2008-05-16
738 reads
Command and Control of the Data Center
As I went walking last night, I listened to two podcasts from RunAs Radio of interviews of Michael Manos and...
2008-05-16
1,087 reads
Midlands PASS May Meeting - Speaker Brian Knight
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Speaker: SQL Server MVP Brian Knight
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a special meeting on...
2008-05-15
636 reads
Thoughts on SQL Saturday in Jacksonville
I was able this Saturday to head down to Jacksonville and speak at the SQL Saturday there. There were a...
2008-05-07
725 reads
Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate
The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...
2008-05-02
873 reads
Recent slate of IIS attacks - more info
The recent slate of attacks on IIS servers don't seem to be an attack directly against IIS or against SQL...
2008-04-26
2,198 reads
Charlotte SQL Server User Group Link Wrong at HQ Site
If you're looking for the Charlotte SQL Server User Group web page, the link on the PASS HQ site is...
2008-04-09
591 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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