Troubleshooting THREADPOOL Waits
Today I want to talk about a specified wait type that can be sometimes very hard to
troubleshoot: the THREADPOOL wait...
2011-10-25
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
Query Memory Spills
When you sometimes look at Execution Plans, you can see that the SELECT operator has
sometimes a so-called Memory Grant assigned....
2011-10-19
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Slides & Samples for my Advanced SQL Server Troubleshooting session at SQLPASS
As I have announced in my "Advanced SQL Server Troubleshooting" session at SQLPASS
today, you can find here the
slides & samples for...
2011-10-14
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SQL Server Indexing Day, 18. Jänner 2012 in Wien
Sie wollen SQL Server
Abfragen um 100% oder gar 1000% beschleunigt haben? Gleichzeitig wollen Sie Hardware–
und Lizenzkosten Ihrer SQL Server Anwendungen...
2011-10-04
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Slides & Samples from my SQLbits sessions
As
I have announced in all of my sessions at the SQLbits conferences in Liverpool/UK,
you can find here the
Slides & Samples for...
2011-10-02
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Slides & Samples for my SolidQ Summit Sessions
As I have announced in all of my sessions last week in Budapest at the SolidQ summit,
you can find here...
2011-09-29
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Slides & Samples for my SQLdays Sessions
As I have announced in all of my sessions this week in Rosenheim/Germany at the SQLdays
conference can find here the
Slides...
2011-09-29
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SQLMCM Training – Day 18
Today we covered the topics Full Text Search, Change Data Capture, Change Tracking,
and Service Broker. I have taken no notes...
2011-08-26
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SQLMCM Training – Day 17
Today Bob spoke about Auditing, SQLCLR, XML, and Spatial Data. Because I already know
these concepts very well, my study notes...
2011-08-25
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SQLMCM Training – Day 16
Today Bob spoke the whole day about securing SQL Server, security itself, and encrypting
data. It was really hard content, and...
2011-08-24
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Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers