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Category: Bugs

Threads Need Memory Too

Published 2016-10-17 by Kevin Feasel

Arun Sirpal notices a bug with fn_dump_dblog():

Using this command creates more threads and hidden schedulers (these will only go after a restart). Depending on what version of SQL Server you are on and what Service Pack you may or may not have this issue. It was fixed in SQL 2012 SP2 onwards. So be on the cautious side when running these sorts of commands.

Also I noticed Memory bloat for the sqlservr.exe. Nothing else was running on this server, just my fn_dump_dblog script.  Threads need memory too.

It’s good advice.  Undocumented functions are probably more likely than documented functions to contain bugs.

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Emoji In SQL Server

Published 2016-10-03 by Kevin Feasel

Daniel Janik wants to have a ninja cat riding a T-Rex for a database name:

There it is! The ninja cat database! You can see that even IntelliSense shows the ninja cat. Cool, right? How does it show in Object Explorer?

DOH! There’s obviously something strange going on here. Let’s validate the sys.databases table:

If full emoji support is the thing keeping you from moving to SQL Server, you might have to wait until the next version.

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