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More often than not, when we investigate the managed heap using SOS we use the all powerful !DumpHeap command. It's an incredibly useful command to get in depth detail on what currently resides on the heap. Let's look at an example of the abbreviated output from !DumpHeap -stat: MT Count TotalSize...

Before we dive into answering this question, we have to acknowledge that technology is meant to empower our workforce to achieve more with ease! It shouldn't be a daily struggle because of underpowered resources. That said, I am sure by now you have had some exposure to SharePoint Governance Planning...

Traditionally, debuggers have been very per thread centric. For example, a debugger most typically will assign a thread to be the current thread and any thread related debug operations you perform will be done on the selected thread. In order to work with a different thread, you need to first switch...

Microsoft has always provided two primary debugging experience: Visual Studio and Debugging Tools for Windows (a.k.a WinDbg). Each debugger provided a very different debugging experience (both from a capabilities point of view as well as usability). WinDbg was most commonly used when you had the need...

  One of key things we are taught about lock constructs in general is that a thread will wait indefinitely on a lock to become available before being allowed to continue. Is that always true? Not quite. Let’s take a look at a simple piece of code: private void webBrowser1_Navigating(object sender...

Let’s say for some reason your users want to implement MDX DRILLTHROUGH statement (equivalent to the cube action provided by most OLAP browsers) in SSRS. Here’s a step-by-step way to implement this. For the purposes of this walkthrough, we are using the ...read more

Scenario A common requirement for enquiry queries on an OLTP database is to have search criteria which are very specific ('get me details for for OrderID = NNNN') and also the occasional reports which ask for all the orders ('get me all the orders ...read more