Bangalore .Net User Group

Thanks Kamlesh. We will surely look for the specific feedback on the sessions at your blog. Keep those comments flowing ...

Session on May 2nd Agenda:   4PM to 5PM : 5 Hidden Gems Inside Sql Server                         - Vinod Kumar, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft      5PM to 6Pm : Refactoring SOAP to ...

Sreedhar - I think you got the genesis and the crux based on the meeting we had at the recent UG meeting :). If you didnt realize MS also sponsors the UG meetings be-it B.NET or B-ITPro UG's. So there are importances given to communities and UG's out there. Now even the Blogger meet is similar in nature and holding in-premise to froster ...

Sreedhar - Nice to see you back with your candid feedbacks. BTW, I have ensured the relevant folks see this feedback. Actually there is enough and loads to talk as upcoming technologies and you will see a lot coming your way atleast the coming UG meets. Always the deal is difficult to juggle between current and future technologies and we try to ...

Since we didnt hear back from you, I presume this problem has been resolved. And do post your actual resolution so that others can also benefit from your experience.

Dude - From the looks of this, as I mentioned before this looks like some sort of hardware failure. Check you HDD vendor / Server vendor to see if there are any hardware related issues (HDD/Memory). There is some bad sector or something wrong in connectivity or bad RAM module hanging around. Since you are also mentioning IO_Completion, this ...

The stats are a clear give-away. You CANNOT have a Disk Queue length of more than 2 and that itself suggests that you are potentially having a storage engine problem. I think you have some problem with the HDD used or in a RAID maybe having a bad controller or bad drivers or somthing on these lines.

Valid feedback Sreedhar and thanks for being candid. I think this will improve our future events. We try to give the best to our members and these feedbacks will surely help us become better everytime. BTW, in reality never does a speaker come for a session to save his MVP status. Atleast not in Bangalore UG :). I can assure you that.

Want to know from the group to if anyone has tried to do any sort of POC on SQL Server 2008? Anything from migration or exploring new capabilities (Filestream, XML or Geospatial)? Do drop a line to ITPro[at]ExtremeExperts.com. I would like to hear more on what you folks have done and how you are using the feature.

If you want any topic on SQL Server to be taken at UG, MS Events or webcasts. Here is a chance to voice it out !!! http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar/archive/2008/04/24/suggest-want-a-sql-server-session.aspx Vinod Kumar