Database Normalization Basics
The task of Database Normalization doesn't have to be painful, especially if you follow Old Mother Celko's Normalization Heuristics.
Due Diligence
How can you perform due diligence on new employees? There are a variety of ways, but Steve Jones has an idea that might help you nudge a potential employer in the direction you want them to move.
Open Call for Editorials
Steve Jones is putting out an open call for guest editorial pieces in the spring of 2014. If you're interested, read on.
Partitioning Data in a Multi-tenant Data Warehouse Solution
Part two of our series looks at the partitioning strategy to separate customers' data, providing security and performance.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Security - Firewall Configuration
Marcin Policht reviews security related challenges of Microsoft Azure Software as a Service-based SQL Database, focusing in particular on the SQL Server and database-level firewall access control functionality and methods that can be employed to implement it.
Automating Database Restores
This article describes a way to automatically restore multiple database backups from a directory.
Consolidation Matters
Consolidating SQL Server instances is something Steve Jones has done in the past and he thinks we'll all do more of in the future.
Monitoring SQL Server: An Interview with David Bick
Simple-Talk sat down with David Bick, a Red Gate Product Manager, to discuss his work on SQL Monitor and why passively monitoring SQL Server just doesn’t cut it anymore.
SQL Saturday #305: Dallas, BA Edition
Please join us on Saturday, May 3rd, 2014, as both business analysts and IT professionals come to learn and network with experts for the first SQLSaturday Business Analytics edition. Please register while space is available
Unexpected View Performance
Views that use implicit conversion to return result sets may use a different query plan than the statement executed in query analyzer.
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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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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