A short but good discussion about the RML comparison DIFF calculations.   From: Robert Dorr Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:21 AM Subject: RE: MSDN Blogs: Contact request: RML Tools: Estimated Comparison Differences   Thanks for the question...

following upgrading Visual Studio 2010 from 2008, the  customer started to experience problems when debugging CLR assemblies.  The behaviors are: Deploying (debugging will automatically invokes deploy) a CLR assembly will take a long time Deploying...

In a lengthy discussion this past week I was reminded that Jan 2011 is when the hard drive manufactures agreed to focus on drives with sector sizes of 4K. I have read all the latest materials about this over the past week and you can too. Just search...

I ran into an issue yesterday where the EventSequence column appears negative (or could be truncated and won't sort correctly) in the Profiler display. Here is an example of the display from a trace that I debugged. When I looked at the raw format I could...

Many of you have used the RML utilities that Keith Elmore and I built and provided to the community on the download center. One of the features of the RML utilities was the ability to do sophisticated replay operations. I was queried about the new DReplay...

In December of 1997, I was asked by my manager whether I would like to visit Seattle to spend time with the SQL Server Development team as they built our next generation of the database engine, SQL Server 7.0. I had been with Microsoft for about four...

I received a request today for help on how SQL Server I/O behaves.   As I was writing up my e-mail response I thought it would also make an interesting blog post. Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 2:53 AM To: Robert Dorr Subject: Async I\O questions...