A few days ago, I found a very interesting behavior regarding Service Broker on a customer system. The main thing is that your activation stored procedure is not allowed to block for a very long time, otherwise you will impact the health of your whole SQL Server instance. In this blog posting I want to …
Yesterday SQLPASS revealed the sessions that were selected for the upcoming SQLPASS summit in Seattle from November 6 – 9. I’m very happy to announce that I’m presenting 2 regular sessions and a precon about SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting! I’m really happy to have a chance to present a precon, because this was one of …
My journey finally ends at the SQLPASS 2012 Summit + read more
As you might know, I’m running my “SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days Workshop” from May 28 – 30 in Central London. You can find out further information about the detailed agenda here: http://www.SQLpassion.at/SQL2012_UK.pdf Next week you have the amazing possibility to win a free seat in that workshop! It’s very easy: Just register as …
Chance to win a free seat in my SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days workshop in London! + read more
In the last weeks and months I have prepared tons of SQL Server 2012 content for my own SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days workshop that I’m currently running across Europe. Because this content shows in a very good way how you can use all the various new features of SQL Server 2012, I have …
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1 + read more
As you might know, Microsoft has released on March 7 the RTM version of SQL Server 2012. If you are an MSDN or TechNet Subscriber, you can already download it and play with it. As with every SQL Server release, SQL Server has also marked several features as deprecated, which means they are removed in …
Deprecated Features in the SQL Server 2012 Database Engine + read more
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