There’s been a resurgence of people pointing out dumps occurring in SQL Server when using linked servers with the ACE…
I have a long history shitting on CrowdStrike – and well, with their past it’s pretty warranted – but antivirus…
Update: The website has been replaced with a stand alone application for better local security and no need for an…
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…
Setup If you’re using availability groups with read-scale or linux (cluster type = None/External), you might want to watch the…
Hey Dispatch, We Have a Code 8 If you’ve been following with the series of demystifying dumps then you’re probably…
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…