Few days ago I have noticed that there will be a change (again) in certification paths for next generation of SQL servers. So I would like to recommend some thoughts about this from Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) of Brent Ozar PLF Company.
Michal Tinthofer is the face of the Woodler company which (as he does), is fully committed to complete support of Microsoft SQL Server products to its customers. He often acts as a database architect, performance tuner, administrator, SQL Server monitoring developer (Woodler SMT) and, last but not least, a trainer of people who are developing their skills in this area. His current "Quest" is to help admins and developers to quickly and accurately identify issues related to their work and SQL Server runtime.
Recently I had some issues with SQL server 2008 R2 service pack 1 installation. From first perspective it looks like an issue with corrupted installation package, but true issue was somewhere else. It was a windows installer.
Read moreA customer’s SQL Server instance reached 100% CPU utilization. Blocking increased, response times deteriorated, and unrelated workloads slowed down. The cause was a Camunda worker query executed roughly 100 times per second in one database and 40–50 times
Read moreIntermittent SQL Server errors are among the most difficult problems to troubleshoot. A job can run successfully hundreds of times and then suddenly start failing. The same error may return days or weeks later, with no obvious change in the code.
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