Old Versions of SQL Server On New Hardware Can Be Interesting
Recently a friend was working on one of his clients SQL Servers and he ran into an interesting problem. The hardware in question was a HP DL 580 with four chips, each with 10 cores, with hyper threading enabled. This should have presented to SQL Server as 80 total logical cores. The problem was that […]
What Should Happen To Blackberry?
Blackberry was back in the news yesterday and today with the news that they have called off the search for a buyer and are instead looking for a new CEO. According to the news reports that I’ve read there were talks of other companies thinking about buying Blackberry. My big question to this is simple. […]
What Should Happen To Blackberry?
Blackberry was back in the news yesterday and today with the news that they have called off the search for a buyer and are instead looking for a new CEO. According to the news reports that I’ve read there were talks of other companies thinking about buying Blackberry. My big question to this is simple. […]
TempDB latch timeouts with lots of RAM
Recently I had an interesting problem where the SQL Server 2008 R2 instance would randomly in the middle of the morning start having latch timeouts on various tempdb database pages. The first assumption was that these pages were GAM pages and that more tempdb database files would solve this problem. However looking at these pages, […]