What is the FCB_REPLICA_SYNC spinlock?
A question came up on the Data Platform MVP email list last night asking what the FCB_REPLICA_SYNC spinlock is. I answered the question and then
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A question came up on the Data Platform MVP email list last night asking what the FCB_REPLICA_SYNC spinlock is. I answered the question and then
Erin’s new course is called SQL Server: Replacing Profiler with Extended Events and is just under 2.5 hours long. It’s based on her very popular user group/conference session
On the second Tuesday of each month, many people in the SQL Server community join together to all blog on the same topic – a
[Edit 2016: Check out my new resource – a comprehensive library of all wait types and latch classes – see here.] Wait statistics, as you
This is a performance tuning post that's been on my to-do list for quite a while. Wait stats analysis is a great way of looking
I just had to figure out how to do this so I figured a quick blog post is in order to save other people time
As part of the 2008 DBA class we’re teaching down here in Melbourne, I did a demo of using predicates and file targets with extended
In the TechNet Magazine article I wrote on Advanced Troubleshooting with Extended Events, I mentioned the always-on event session called system_health. Jonathan Kehayias, a fellow
Microsoft’s Steffen Krause has written an excellent whitepaper on Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008, that I technically reviewed, and
The January 2009 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available on the web and has a new article I wrote on Advanced Troubleshooting with Extended
The second part of our radio interview with TechNet has been released (see here for part 1). In this installment we discuss troubleshooting and manageability
Phew – last week Kimberly and I spent 3 days teaching the ins-and-outs of SQL Server 2008 for DBAs/IT-Pros to about 130 Microsoft SQL Server
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