Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack

I am excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipelines app for Slack. If you use Slack, you can use the Azure Pipelines app for Slack to easily monitor the events for your pipelines. Set up and manage subscriptions for completed builds, releases, pending approvals and more from the app and get notifications for… Continue reading Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack

Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers | The Open Source Show

Armon Dadgar (@armon), HashiCorp CTO and co-founder, and Aaron Schlesinger (@arschles) talk about how and why HashiCorp Vault is a security and open source product: two things traditionally considered at odds. You’ll learn how to avoid secret sprawl an… Continue reading Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers | The Open Source Show

“Waits, Waits, Do Tell Me”* – how to analyze bottlenecks in SQL Server

First published on MSDN on Dec 10, 2012
“Waits” in SQL Server are often a major source of performance issues. “Waits” as they are known in the SQL Server world essentially indicate that a worker thread inside SQL Server is waiting for a resource to … Continue reading “Waits, Waits, Do Tell Me”* – how to analyze bottlenecks in SQL Server

DbMgrPartnerCommitPolicy::SetSyncState May Seem More Mysterious than It Actually Is

First published on MSDN on May 24, 2017 AlwaysOn has become a major SQL Server technology. In my own process of learning it, I have often wondered what this mysterious message means. DbMgrPartnerCommitPolicy::SetSyncState: 00000026BD96D330:4 Decoding… Continue reading DbMgrPartnerCommitPolicy::SetSyncState May Seem More Mysterious than It Actually Is