One of the things that is lacking in the community is for some simple dump analysis for SQL Server, well…
I would say I’m surprised but… ahem… I’m not. My own snarkyness aside, I’m not sure what updates have or…
Issue Introduction I was sent a quite an interesting email stating that SQL Server would not shut down. Attempting to…
Issue Introduction I was asked if I knew any reason why SQL Agent would be using “a bunch” of memory…
Primer If you haven’t already read up on cooperative and preemptive scheduling or aren’t sure what those are, please read…
What’s an IOCP? IO Completion Ports are a set of Windows APIs which allow for efficient, fast, multithreaded asynchronous IO.…
Access Violations (AV) are another common error that will cause SQL Server to take a memory dump. These can occur…
One of the most common items that will cause a memory dump in SQL Server is a non-yielding scheduler (generally…