The Value of an MBA in IT
Do you have an MBA? If so, has it helped you? Is it worth getting one for someone in IT? Ted Pin comments.
DIY
For this Friday, Steve Jones has a poll about life outside of work and how much you tinker with things.
DIY
For this Friday, Steve Jones has a poll about life outside of work and how much you tinker with things.
DIY
For this Friday, Steve Jones has a poll about life outside of work and how much you tinker with things.
Restoring a database during SQL Server upgrade
Part 2 in this upgrade series lists the steps to point application traffic at a transition server while the primary cluster is rebuilt to Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005.
SQL Server 2008: new data types and .Net 2 with and without SP1
If you use the new data types in SQL Server 2008, and your front-end application uses .NET 2, you may hit difficulties. András explains why and how...
DTUTIL Utility to Copy / Delete SSIS Deployed in MSDB to File System
Use the DTUTIL Command Prompt Utility to Copy / Install / Delete the SSIS Package deployed in MSDB Database to file system
What's an MVP?
What does it mean to be an MVP for Microsoft? Steve Jones talks about what the award is and what it means to get the award.
Enhancement in variable declaration – SQL Server 2008
Enhanced variable declaration, one of the many enhancements that Microsoft added to SQL Server 2008 allows you to declare and initialize a value at the same time. This article shows you how to do it.
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...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
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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