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Archives: July 2011
SQL Server Hardware Book News and Reviews
Today was an exciting day, since I discovered that fellow SQL Server MVP Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) had posted a very nice review of my book SQL Server Hardware.
That means a lot to me, since I respect Brent, both as a person and as a… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 29 July 2011
Some Common Disk Drives Compared
Since I talked about how wonderful the newer Western Digital Black 6Gbps SATA III hard drives are a couple of days ago, I thought I would run CrystalDiskMark on a couple of different models in that line, along with a couple of other drives I had easy access to.… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 27 July 2011
Leaked Information About AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors
CPU World has a post about some leaked info regarding the upcoming Opteron 6200 series “Bulldozer” processor line. Here are the specifications of the four models that the story describes:
Opteron 6220 8 cores, 3.0GHz base clock speed, Turbo CORE to 3.5GHz
Opteron 6234 12 cores, 2.4GHz base clock speed,…
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 26 July 2011
Building or Buying a High Performance, Low Cost Desktop Machine for SQL Server Development and Testing
There was a lengthy discussion on Twitter this morning, where one of my friends, Grant Fritchey (Twitter) was asking the community for suggestions about a good hardware setup that would enable him to run two to three concurrent virtual machines, all running SQL Server. My initial thoughts ran… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 24 July 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. This CU has ten fixes listed in the knowledge base article, and it is Build 10.0.4316. This Cumulative Update is only for SQL Server 2008 SP2 (not for SQL Server 2008 R2).
Microsoft has also released Cumulative… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 18 July 2011
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released
Microsoft has finally (after releasing the CTP version way back in April) released the final, gold build of SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. This service pack includes the fixes from SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Updates 1 through 6, plus some new features that are not included in… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 12 July 2011
Teaching Transact-SQL at University of Denver, University College
Starting this week on Wednesday night, I will be teaching a special five-week condensed version of ICT 4462, Transact-SQL Programming on campus at University of Denver, University College. This class is normally a ten week course, but the school usually asks for a condensed version for the Summer quarter.… Read more
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Posted in Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance on 12 July 2011