Slava Oks's WebLog

This is my first post in this category so I am really looking forward to your comments :-) Today I would like to cover a specific feature related to our implementation of C++ exception handling. Every day I realize that not many people are familiar with...

As I promised last time here comes next post on memory J . Remember, my eventual goal is to reveal how memory management works in SQL Server but for you to really appreciate it, I think, you do need to get good feeling on how Windows manages memory. Understanding...

Some of you could have gotten bored with my previous post http://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/01/27/361678.aspx . Yea, I know that VAS subject was covered multiple times and by multiple authors in the past and you probably know about it more than...

Memory is a set of common resources shared by applications, their components and operating system. One needs to be very specific when referring to a given memory resource. Mistakenly, in many cases, developers, users, DBAs refer to different memory resources...

When we started working on the next release of SQL Server, Yukon, we realized that supportability features are keys to our success. Eventually I am planning on covering ones that are related to low level "stuff", something that many of you, I know, really...