Version 9.04.004 of the RML Utilities for Microsoft SQL Server has been released.  This release of the RML Utilities provides support for: SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2014 CTP2 on Windows 7 ...read more

This is a follow up to two blog posts from back in 2009 which talked about leaked connections.  In Part 1 and Part 2 of that post, it was about how to determine that you actually filled your pool.  This was centered around the following error ...read more

First off, thanks to everyone who decided to attend a Microsoft SQL PFE session at the PASS Summit in Charlotte. We know you have a lot of great sessions to choose from, and we are thrilled if you happened to have chosen to listen in on one of ours. As ...read more

Turns out this is an issue in the SQL Server code and the error is a bit noisy during attach database. When opening the database files, SQL Server calls SetFileIoOverlappedRange (when enabled properly) in order to help improve I/O performance.  This ...read more

During October 15th-18th, the US PASS Summit 2013 will be held in Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Convention Center.  The Microsoft CSS team has a long history with PASS.  We have been speaking and working at PASS since 2003.  This year ...read more