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Monday, February 02, 2009

Zeroing in on blocking on seemingly unrelated tables

by mssqlisv via SQL Programmability & API Development Team Blog on 2/2/2009 9:20:00 PM

In one of our recent lab tests we were surprised to see blocking occur on a table that did not participate in the transaction being reported as the cause of the blocking.  From the sp_lock output we noticed an ‘X’ lock being held on the table, but we could guarantee that there was no insert, delete or update activity on the table.   Needless to say, this was odd and baffled us for while and it was only when we analyzed the definitions of the tables that we could determine the sour ...

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Oracle Exadata article — up at last

by Curt Monash via DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services on 2/2/2009 6:14:51 PM

I’d been promising Intelligent Enterprise editor Doug Henschen an article on Oracle Exadata for months. It’s finally up.  For a variety of reasons, it was a lot more work than one might at first guess.  One such reason is that it spawned four related blog posts over the past few days. As I post this, there [...] ...

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