You’ve Asked, It’s Now Here! The largest complaint, by far, for Availability Groups (AG) has been that system databases could…
It’s Great When No One Asks Questions You’re taking the best steps to track what goes on in your instance…
Many DBAs haven’t had the experience of using database mirroring, since it was deprecated in 2012 when availability groups were…
Hey Dispatch, We Have a Code 8 If you’ve been following with the series of demystifying dumps then you’re probably…
What’s an IOCP? IO Completion Ports are a set of Windows APIs which allow for efficient, fast, multithreaded asynchronous IO.…
Initially I thought to myself, “this is the most misunderstood wait type that exists in the HA space for SQL…
Access Violations (AV) are another common error that will cause SQL Server to take a memory dump. These can occur…
One of the most common items that will cause a memory dump in SQL Server is a non-yielding scheduler (generally…
Issue Introduction In this olved stery the problem comes as a slow database restore. That’s what I was given, that’s…
You’ve won! If, somehow, you’ve managed to see this error in your errorlog then congratulations, you’ve won an instance of…