Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were accepted. I’m very lucky to announce that my submitted session “Advanced SQL Server 2008 Troubleshooting” made it to the summit as a regular session (75min)! Here’s the abstract that I have submitted: It’s …
I’m working my whole professional work life (around 11 years) with SQL Server, and have see so many pitfalls in configuration options, deployments, and database designs. From all this know-how I’ve done in the past a lot of consulting engagements and have spoken at the various SQL Server conferences across the world about performance tuning …
It’s already a long time ago, since I spoke at SQLbits (first week of April), but yesterday the speakers got their session evaluation, and I’m very proud about the results of the 2 sessions that I have done at SQLbits: Service Broker: Message in a Bottle SQL Server 2008 Database Internals The following 2 figures …
A few days ago, SQLPASS opened the voting for the precon’s and sessions for the annual SQLPASS community summit. I’ve also submitted 4 sessions and one precon, and I would be very happy if you can vote for them. Here are the 4 session abstracts: Advanced SQL Server 2008 TroubleshootingIt’s Friday, 05:00pm. You are just …
During this week I have prepared a workshop about Locking & Blocking for one of my customers. One big part of this workshop was also the new Optimistic Concurrency model that SQL Server offers us since the inception of SQL Server 2005. Since SQL Server 2005 we have the READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT ISOLATION level (RCSI) …
RCSI/SI doesn’t work with rows larger than 8046 bytes + read more
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