Blog Posts

Blog Post

A New Word: Zverism

zverism – n.  the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...

2025-03-28

58 reads

Blog Post

EightKB 2025

EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...

2025-03-28 (first published: )

259 reads

Blog Post

On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...

2025-03-26 (first published: )

382 reads

Blogs

Advice I Like: Art

By

Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...

Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer

By

One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...

Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server

By

Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

i noticed the sqlhealth extende event is on by default , so can i reduce

By rajemessage 14195

hi, i noticed the sqlhealth extended event is on by default , and it...

New-AzSqlInstanceServerTrustCertificate - Failed and no clues

By BrainDonor

Using New-AzSqlInstanceServerTrustCertificate to import a certificate and get the message New-AzSqlInstanceServerTrustCertificate: Long running operation...

Refactoring SQL Code

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Refactoring SQL Code, which is...

Visit the forum

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;
 

See possible answers