Monthly Archives: December 2013

Finding the application timeout

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Robert

The problem Last week, an application started reporting SQL timeouts. By default, SQL does not have a query timeout; it is the application that decides it doesn’t want to wait any longer. The question was: how do we find out … Continue reading →

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The curious case of the trailing space

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Robert

Some weeks ago, a developer told me he had found some strange behavior in SQL Server. Someone immediatelly yelled “bug”. Comments like this always grab my attention. More often than not, however, it’s not a bug. That also turned out … Continue reading →

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