Re: Untested Developer Code - lack of concurrency testing

I wrote a paper with few examples of these kinds of issues: http://prodlife.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/microsoft-word-seven-sins-of-concurrency.pdf

The scripts that are mentioned in the paper can be downloaded here: http://prodlife.wordpress.com/presentations/

Thanks,

Chen Shapira

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:11 AM, kyle Hailey <kylelf_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> with one user and it runs fine and then gets put into production and
> only to hit a huge performance snafu.   I'm putting together a demo on this kind of situation and was
> thinking of some examples. One example that came to mind is a Nesedt
> Loops join that hammers the root node of an index. Might work fine for
> one user, but when multiple users start running it, the query runs
> into cache buffers chains latch issues with the high concurrency
> access to the index's root block which might be resolved by doing a
> hash join or moving the lookup table to a hash cluster for example.   Wondering if anyone else had good examples of developer code that
> worked fine with one user and broke in the multi user production
> environment.

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