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FabCon 2025 Recap

Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit,...

2025-04-30 (first published: )

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SQL Server Wait Stats

Everything in SQL Server is waiting for something…this is by design. And most people never think about it… Until your application is waiting to complete its request, sell the...

2025-04-30 (first published: )

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Using AI for Data Conversion

I’m sure I’ve never mentioned that I’m an amateur radio operator. Like Vegans and Cross Fitters, we tend to be shy and withdrawn about our predilections. BWA-HA-HA! Ok, like...

2025-04-28 (first published: )

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Why use XACT_ABORT?

This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by...

2025-04-28 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

The Read Committed Snapshot Isolation behaviour

I am currently working with Sql Server 2022 and AdventureWorks database. First of all, let's set the "Read Committed Snapshot" to ON:

use master;
go

alter database AdventureWorks set read_committed_snapshot on with no_wait;
go
Then, from Session 1, I execute the following code:
--Session 1
use AdventureWorks;
go

create table ##t1 (id int, f1 varchar(10));
go

insert into ##t1 values (1, 'A');
From another session, called Session 2, I open a transaction and execute the following update:
--Session 2
use AdventureWorks;
go

begin tran;
update ##t1 
set f1 = 'B'
where id = 1;
Now, going back to Session 1, what happens if I execute this statement?
--Session 1
select f1
from ##t1
where id = 1;
 

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