Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) of SQLskills kicks off an interesting series on configuring and using Service Broker to accomplish asynchronous processing in SQL Server.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) talks about SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition and a couple of little carrots that might make this upgrade more compelling than SQL Server 2012.
Paul White (@SQL_Kiwi) kicks off a new blog series about ACID – atomic, consistent, isolated, durable – and how many people make incorrect assumptions about how these things work in SQL Server.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills continues his series on knee-jerk performance troubleshooting. In this post, he talks about SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD, and how to determine whether it is a wait to worry about in your scenario.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills.com starts a new series on knee-jerk troubleshooting, discussing many areas where SQL Server folks jump to conclusions when trying to fix a performance issue.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand), of SQL Sentry, follows up his original running totals post with an article describing different ways to achieve the same types of results for more complex grouping and aggregation.
