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Reporting Services and the MS09-062 GDR (GDI+)

Updated 10/29/09:  Added section describing SQL Engine only servers at the bottom.   Brian Hartman did a great job outlining what the GDR is and why we had it.  You can read it here .  I’m not going to rehash that here.  What

How It Works: What are the RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE_MONITOR telling me?

The ring buffer records (which can be sent to XEvent) for Resource Monitor and Memory Broker are the key aspects to understanding RM.  The record is produced when a change is detected in state monitored by RM.    CREATE EVENT SESSION RingBufferInfo
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SSIS 2005 and the .NET Garbage Collector

I was troubleshooting an SSIS Out of Memory issue the other day which led us into how the .NET Garbage Collector (GC) works.  When debugging it, I found that we were using the Workstation GC with Concurrent GC On (this is the default for .NET applications). 

Troubleshooting sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account Errors

I was attempting to establish the command shell proxy on my local machine and ran into a series of errors.   As I looked at them more I decided to file some work items with the SQL dev team to provide better context in the message text.  
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Reporting Services Windows Service will not start after applying MS08-052

We have been seeing a few cases where the Windows Service for Reporting Services will not start after applying the following fix: MS08-052: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 GDR: September 9, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954606/

SQL Server 2005 - RDTSC Truths and Myths Discussed

I posted some updates to my blog entry about the RDTSC and drift warnings in May. See the following link http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2006/11/27/sql-server-2005-sp2-will-introduce-new-messages-to-the-error-log-related-to-timing-activities.aspx
 
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