T-SQL Tuesday #124 Query Store and Spin Locks #tsql2sday

This month's T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tracy Boggiano and she's asking us to write about our experiences with Query Store. I thought about what I should write, I'm a big fan of query store and I've used it to help me out on a number of occasions recently. I could write about one of... Continue Reading →

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High CPU and Query Store, A Story of Spinlock Heartache

This is going to be a quick look at an issue that we recently encountered, I'm not going to go in depth into spinlocks and what they are (perhaps that could be the subject of a future post). We were enjoying a nice peaceful afternoon when we hear panicked shouting that a SQL Server had... Continue Reading →

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