Month: February 2019

Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Skip Ahead and Preview Alpha Rings will begin receiving the latest 1904 Xbox One system update (19h1_release_xbox_dev_1904.190221-2147). Read on for more about the new features, fixes and known issues in the latest 1904 system update.   For the next few releases we will keep Alpha Skip Ahead and Alpha builds in sync to test core functionality.   New Features:   A complete feature list for 1904 is published here https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/02/21/new-features-rolling-out-to-xbox-insiders-this-spring/ This build contains the new Storage uninstall feature to please test. Improved uninstall When you try to install a… Continue reading New Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead 1904 build coming today 2/24/19→

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This evening at a press event to kickoff MWC Barcelona, I had the pleasure of joining CEO Satya Nadella and Technical Fellow Alex Kipman onstage to talk in depth about Microsoft’s worldview for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. As part of today’s press event, we also introduced the world to HoloLens 2. YouTube Video

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First published on MSDN on Dec 13, 2012 With this meditation I attempt to explain what some of the more common concepts that get used with SQL Server thread management and scheduling are. Parable: There was an all-powerful, but humble and benign Ma… Continue reading Tasks, Workers, Threads, Scheduler, Sessions, Connections, Requests ; what does it all mean?→

First published on MSDN on Dec 12, 2012 What is the IOCP Listener? The IOCP listener is a dedicated system thread that accepts incoming connections to SQL Server. It is a SQL Network Interface (SNI)-layer thread that listens for TCP/IP sockets or N… Continue reading Is the IOCP listener actually listening?→

First published on MSDN on Dec 12, 2012
 
 
Is SQL Trace,  or SQL Profiler,  or any other 3rd party tracing tool impacting SQL Server performance? The DBAs often contemplate this issue when they want to get insight from their SQL … Continue reading SQL Trace performance Impact and Wait types→

First published on MSDN on Dec 12, 2012
A colleague had the following question not too long ago
Question : Does SQL Server check for “OS permissions” such as Locked Pages In Memory (LPIM) and if so does it use the Windows “macro-style” constants fo… Continue reading Locked Pages in Memory and User Rights→

Keep team members—internal and external—connected to important people and information. How? Create a group-connected SharePoint team site in Office 365 – and use it. It’s yours to squeeze as much power and value out of based on what you are trying to a… Continue reading Top 10 most important powers of your SharePoint team sites in Office 365→