If You Had To Pick a Super Hero...
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at a lighter topic that's fun for most geeks: super heroes.
2010-08-27
153 reads
Editorials
Individual Contributions
Each person on a team, or even in a company, can contribute something. Steve Jones reminds us not to assume we are better than others because of our job.
2010-08-26
175 reads
The DBA Financial Analyst
Will DBAs need to perform more complex financial analysis of the options they consider when building and tuning software systems? Steve Jones thinks it might be a skill needed in cloud computing.
2010-08-25
233 reads
When To Touch
When can you modify a database that supports some third party product? Steve Jones has a few thoughts and warns you to be careful.
2010-08-24
143 reads
DMVs: are they worth the effort?
Many of the SQL Server DMVs still have a wild, unfinished feel but they are an incredibly useful tool for DBA, well-worth the sweat and toil required to learn and query them effectively.
2010-08-23
452 reads
Rating Bugs
How do you triage and rate the bugs that come in for software? How should Microsoft do this for SQL Server. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2010-08-23
109 reads
Personal Investments
This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it.
2010-08-20
303 reads
Beyond Automation
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
2010-08-19
283 reads
Penalties
Terry Childs gets sentenced for refusing to turn over passwords to his boss. Steve Jones reminds us that we work for someone and that we have to remember that when taking a stand.
2010-08-18
300 reads
Keeping Engaged
How can you better keep employees engaged in your company? Keep them happy and hopefully retain them for a long time? Steve Jones has some comments today.
2010-08-17
164 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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