Tag Archives: code language
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Negative session_ids
3January 27, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I probably had the most fun all week when a query I was running came up blocked. Sounds strange right? …
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The “most_recent_sql_handle” column
1January 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
While researching my last post I ran across an interesting column I hadn’t noticed before, sys.dm_exec_connections.most_recent_sql_handle. I mentioned it in …
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Transactions: Who, What and Where
1January 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I …
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Guid vs Identity columns (Ints)
11January 13, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I came across an interesting question on SE last week. Guid vs INT – Which is better as a primary …
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Transactions: What are they?
7January 8, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve done a couple of posts now talking about how rolling back a transaction works. I thought this time I …
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Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
4January 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an …
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Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.
1December 19, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the ROLLBACK command rolls back the entire transaction all the way …
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Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction
5December 17, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID). …
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Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE
2December 9, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which …
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