Compliance
Complying with software licensing is something you should do, but how far should companies take this?
2007-12-24
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Editorials
When You're Out of the Office
What would you recommend for the holidays next week when the office is closed.
2007-12-21
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2007-12-20
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Obfuscation
Test data is critical to being sure your application works, but is production data ok to use in test environments?
2007-12-19
518 reads
Data Ownership
Who owns the data that we generate ourselves? It's not as easy to answer that as you think.
2007-12-18
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2007-12-17
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Better Licensing
Licensing SQL Server used to be easy and could be again, though it is still better than licensing Oracle.
2007-12-17
247 reads
What Would You Do?
If someone acts suspicious at work, do you report them? What if it's the CIO? What if data security is involved?
2007-12-14
101 reads
Another Reason to Hate Ads
Malicious code embedded inside advertisements served on the web. What's next?
2007-12-13
71 reads
The Downside of Real Time
Everyone wants real time reporting, or do they? Steve Jones talks about some of the downsides of implementing such a system.
2007-12-12
122 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
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,...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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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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