Removing SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (Data Collector)
Learn how to remove the MDW from your SQL Server environment with the 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 versions.
Azure Diagnostics for Virtual Machines
Hosting a scalable application in Azure seems ideal, but what happens when things go wrong? Azure Cloud Services provide extensive diagnostics, and this feature has now been extended to Azure web sites and Azure Virtual Machines. You need to set up diagnostics on the VM, but once this is done, all your logs, traces and performance counters can be collected from many VMs in one place for easy management.
#SQLPASS Election Interview with James Rowland-Jones
An interview with James Rowland-Jones in advance of the PASS election.
Integrating Big Data into the Enterprise Data Warehouse
Big Data implementations are more than just lots of data. Of equal importance is the analytics software used to query the data. Analyzing business data using advanced analytics is common, especially in companies that already have an enterprise data warehouse. It is therefore only natural that your big data application must be integrated with the existing warehouse.
SQL Saturday #318 - Orlando
This is Orlando's 8th SQLSaturday and this year will be better than ever with more than 50 different speakers giving over 50 presentations - all for FREE. Sept 27, 2014.
Monitoring Longest Running Transaction using SQL Server Agent Alerts
Step by Step guide to setup SQL Server Agent Alert for the proactive monitoring of Monitoring of Longest Running Transactions.
Free PDF Booklet: 119 SQL Code Smells
Once you've done a number of SQL code-reviews, you'll be able to identify signs in the code that indicate all might not be well. These 'code smells' are coding styles that, while not bugs, suggest design problems with the code. In this PDF, Phil Factor's put together 119 of those code smells so you can see what to avoid and why.
SQL Saturday #333 - St. Louis, MO
SQL Saturday is coming to the St. Louis University Campus on Oct 11, 2014. SQL Saturday offers a full day of free SQL Server training and networking, some of the speakers at this event include Kathi Kellenberger, Stuart Ainsworth, and Abhishek Srivastava. If you're thinking of attending this event, please register while space is available.
10 things I learned about rapidly scaling websites with Azure
Troy Hunt takes a look at a website whose traffic literally increased 60-fold overnight. Interesting stuff happens when scale changes that dramatically, so he decided to share a few things he learned.
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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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