Finally, I can say I am done with a couple of books I had been working on, pretty much simultanously at times the past few months: Exam Ref 70-762 Developing SQL Databases (https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/exam-ref-70-762-developing-sql-databases-9781509304943) I wrote the first half of the book, with Stacia Varga finishing things out. ...

This is part 1 of my In Memory OLTP blogs for my upcoming book project. In this blog I want to take a (reasonably) quick look at how concurrent modifications are handled using SNAPSHOT isolation level. There are two different flavors of SNAPSHOT Isolation level you can deal with, and while they are similar, there are some very big differences ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!) The first issue that arose in my ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!)  Before ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I ...

Weird, somehow I lost text in the middle of this post after it was posted... I created it a few days back and set it to post later... Corrected. So I put in the following abstract for Devlink (and may for SQL Saturday Orlando and/or PASS Summit.) I don't know if I will get accepted, but I am pretty excited to work on this topic one ...