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SQL

Deeper into Concurrency Contention

We’ve recently looked at how single threaded concurrency was handled in SQL Server and followed up last time by diving into multithreaded concurrency. This time we’re going to go a bit further with the multithreading to look more into how the contention is handled when the number of cores available doesn’t line up with our workload. We’ll also […]

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SQL Server

Multithreaded Concurrency Essentials

Recently we looked at single threaded concurrency in SQL Server for workloads which only need a single core to execute. We saw how they ran at the same time with the queries effectively being round-robined on the CPU. This time out I wanted to look at how the concurrency looks when we’re working with multithreaded workloads. Setting […]

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Misc

Markdown Cheat Sheet

If you haven’t seen or used Markdown before, it’s a simple way to annotate plain text in a way which indicates formatting by using specific characters. This means that you can format your text as you’re typing rather than scrolling through countless options in a visual editor such as Word. Personally I find markdown so […]

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Misc

Partial Highlighting in Notepad++

Productivity is a core component of our day to day jobs in and around code. Part of that comes from the tools we use and a common one would be Notepad++ thanks to all of its handy features and plugins to extend it. One of the simplest out of the box features is the ability […]

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SQL Server

Demonstrating Concurrency in SQL Server

The question for today: if we have three queries – one which takes 1 second to run, one which takes 2 seconds to run, and one which takes 3 seconds to run – how long will it take to return data for the first and last query if they all start at the same time? […]