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I covered that. Uncommitted transactions will be locked and under READ COMMITTED isolation, your attempt to read that transaction will result in your transaction being blocked and waiting for the...
March 25, 2012 at 8:21 pm
You're welcome, Michael. You are right that there are some very basic elements that are handled very differently between Oracle and SQL server.
March 25, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Getting back to the original question. Having physical reads is normal in most situations, like Gail said. Take a look at your page life expectancy. This tells you on average...
March 25, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I'll make this simple. ALL READS COME FROM CACHE.
SQL operates with pages in cache only. It requests pages from cache. If the page doesn't exist in cache, a separate mechanism...
March 25, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Koen, the program has been scaled out. Take a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/master-sql-path.aspx
February 27, 2012 at 1:19 am
Thanks Uwe! It has been posted: http://blogs.technet.com/b/themasterblog/archive/2012/02/24/uwe-ricken-shares-his-story-the-path-to-mcm-certification.aspx
February 24, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Congrats Uwe! And thanks for sharing your story!
Would you be okay if I reposted your story on The Master Blog so more people can benefit from it?
The Master Blog is...
February 24, 2012 at 10:01 am
I was thinking more along the lines of someone with certifications but not a lot of experience. Someone with a lot of experience and no certifications would also get an...
February 17, 2012 at 11:33 am
Jeff Moden (2/13/2012)
February 17, 2012 at 10:29 am
Brent Ozar (2/13/2012)
Within a month of getting the MCM, I had new consulting clients that were literally asking, "How much money will it take to get you onsite?" I...
February 17, 2012 at 10:27 am
TravisDBA (2/13/2012)
Perhaps, but in the US it isn't large companies that have all the MCMs.
They have most of them though. Of the 47 current MCAs and MCMs in SQL...
February 17, 2012 at 10:19 am
tony.turner (2/12/2012)
MCM is not really open to us in the third-world, where I gather a fair portion of your readership comes from
Why is that? Is it because of a lack...
February 17, 2012 at 10:17 am
James Stover (2/16/2012)
That's what separates the wheat from the chaff.
I love that saying! Especially when someone counters with, "what the heck is 'chaff'?".
February 16, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Yes, I found one of those sites a while back claiming to have MCMs that had achieved the certification using their brain dumps. But the following is a fact: 100%...
February 16, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Perhaps my wording was a little too strong. However, I asked him to provide evidence of the existence of brain dumps of the MCM exams and none of his links...
February 16, 2012 at 1:47 pm
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