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OrcaMDF Is Now Available on NuGet 13 May 2013 | 11:55 am
Thanks to Justin Dearing (b|t), OrcaMDF is now available on NuGet! OrcaMDF being on NuGet means the bar just got lowered even more if you want to try it out. Let me show you how easy it is to read the...
How to Identify Which Request Caused a Runaway Thread, Using Windbg 7 May 2013 | 10:26 am
When your w3wp process is stuck at 100% like, like when I used a non-thread-safe Dictionary concurrently, you may want to identify what request the runaway thread is actually serving. Let me show you ...
Debugging in Production Part 3 – Thread-Safe Dictionaries 30 Apr 2013 | 12:13 pm
In part 2 we found out that the concurrent access to a generic dictionary triggered a race condition bug that caused threads to get stuck at 100% CPU usage. In this part, I’ll show how easy it is to r...
Debugging in Production Part 2 – Latent Race Condition Bugs 15 Apr 2013 | 10:31 am
Having analyzed the process dump in part 1, let’s take a look at the code we suspect of causing the issue, in particular how race condition bugs can be avoided. Looking at the User Code There were thr...
Last Chance to Register for SQLSaturday #196 in Copenhagen 9 Apr 2013 | 08:33 am
In just a couple of weeks SQLSaturday #196 will be happening on April 20th in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is a free day smack-filled with great speakers, many of them international! Just check out the s...
Debugging in Production Part 1 – Analyzing 100% CPU Usage Using Windbg 8 Apr 2013 | 10:24 am
This is the story of how a simple oversight resulted in a tough to catch bug. As is often the case, it worked on my machine and only manifested itself in production on a live site. In this series we w...
Native Chrome Flash Player Disabled by Itself All of a Sudden 27 Feb 2013 | 02:52 pm
At my job we’ve got a product that relies heavily on Flash. The last couple of days I’ve had a number of users complain that, all of a sudden, they couldn’t view Flash content any more. Common for all...
SQLSaturday #196 – Presenting a Precon 21 Feb 2013 | 10:11 am
Seeing SQLSaturday events sprawling up all over the world makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Long have I been considering whether one might happen in Denmark, but to be honest, I didn’t think the aud...
Blog Revamp 20 Feb 2013 | 10:13 am
Having been at it for almost 11 years, I’ve been through a number of blog revamps through the time. And here we are, once again. I first launched the blog back in 2002, though it was in Danish back th...
Top X SQL Server Developer Mistakes 17 Jan 2013 | 10:05 pm
It's been a long day, and I'm finally on my way home from Copenhagen to Aarhus. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the first day of the Warm Crocodile conference yesterday. Thankfully I was able to...
