As part of the SQL Server 2012 release several changes were made to Analysis Services that should alleviate some issues previously seen on large NUMA node machines. Separation of IO and Processing Jobs To better understand how the changes that were...

I was sitting through SQL Server 2012 training, and Ajay Jagannathan was showing us Management Studio.  Eric Burgess had worked on this topic.  He started covering some neat things, that have apparently been there for a while, but I just never...

As you may or may not know, SSRS 2008 R2 added the ability to automatically create page breaks on group changes.  Historically, people attempted to use custom code to accomplish this and, while it worked, the pagination logic we use in SSRS 2008...

If you have followed this blog, you have probably seen a series of posts documenting the life of a project I’ve been working on, Atlanta, to a product called System Center Advisor . Today marks the official release of that product. This has been a particularly...

For some reason I have been looking at DMV output closely the last couple of weeks.    I just blogged about the pending I/O requests and now I have a behavior to outline for dm_tran_session_transactions for todays blog. select * from sys...

I have been working an issue where the DMV was returning io_pending_ms_ticks incorrectly.  The following output is an example of ~164 hour delay. Unlikely to occur without any other side effects noted. select * from sys . dm_io_pending_io_requests...

Suresh brought to my attention that we have been getting questions as to why SQL Server starts on group 1 and then group 2 and it is not predictable?  Then Tejas brought up another issues and since I worked on this way back before we released SQL...