Hi folks
I’m back from an amazing week at PASS and an awesome reception for SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2.
I’m starting to plan and write my next book on SQL Server 2012 Internals so blogging will kept to a minimum, not that I’ve had a lot of time to blog lately.
However, while working on the final quiz for my Concurrency class through SSWUG, I noticed something peculiar about the Query Options | Advanced dialog in Management Studio. You have the option of choosing a default ISOLATION LEVEL and a DEADLOCK PRIORITY, and both those values have not been updated since before SQL Server 2005. The ISOLATION LEVEL choices do NOT include SNAPSHOT, which was introduced in SQL Server 2005 and the DEADLOCK_PRIORITY only shows Low and Normal. The value High and the numbers –10 through 10 were added back in SQL Server 2000!
So my first thought was that nobody had updated this dialog since then, but then I noticed that there was an option you can see under “Results” in the left pane, to give you Multiserver results, and Multiserver queries weren’t added until SQL Server 2008.
So what do you think? Should Microsoft update this dialog to give you all the possibilities?
~Kalen