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BYOD

In the future we may be required to bring our own devices to work. Does that make sense? Would you want to get an allowance and purchase your own laptop?  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2012/01/18 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial
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Does It Help

This editorial was originally published on Oct 12, 2006, published today as Steve is out today at the PASS Summit. Today Steve talks about the productivity that comes from having multiple monitors.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2011/10/14 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial
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RAID 5 Parity

By Steve Jones 2011/03/25 | Category: hardware
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RAID 10

By Steve Jones 2011/03/04 | Category: hardware
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, IO Latency and SQL Server

A Thousand Men Marching Still Only March As Fast As One Man. la·ten·cy - Computers . the time required to locate the first bit or character in a storage location, expressed as access timeminus word time. Often when talking to people...  Read more...
By Wesley Brown 2011/03/01 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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New Version of CPU-Z (1.57) has Been Released

On February 18, Franck Delattre released version 1.57 of the very useful CPU-Z Utility. Here is a list of the...  Read more...
By GlennBerry 2011/02/23 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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Is CPU-Z Risky To Run on a Production Server?

There was a conversation on Twitter recently (with the #sqlhelp hashtag) about whether it was completely safe to run the...  Read more...
By GlennBerry 2011/02/23 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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RAID 5

By Steve Jones 2011/02/18 | Category: hardware
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RAID

By Steve Jones 2011/01/26 | Category: hardware
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Another Example of CPU Throttling Due to Balanced Power Plan in Windows Server 2008 R2

Here is another example CPU throttling from someone who had a server running with the default “Balanced” Power Plan in...  Read more...
By GlennBerry 2011/01/24 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server

Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...  Read more...
By GlennBerry 2010/11/17 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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Living Moore's Law

eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2010/10/19 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial
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Solid State Disks and SQL Server

An interesting result from a recent test of SSDs in SQL Server by Wes Brown. A surprising discovery is important for anyone thinking about using SSDs to know.  Read more...
By Wesley Brown 2012/03/09 (first published: 2010/04/08) | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: ssd disks
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MySpace Using SSDs

Glenn Barry (blog, twitter) posted a note about MySpace using Fusion-IO PCi-E cards to replace hard drives in their systems....  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2009/12/24 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: blogs
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Memory Management

By abmore 2009/11/13 | Category: windows
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Moore's Law

Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2009/09/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial - mp3
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Moore's Law

Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2009/09/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial
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Moore's Law

Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2009/09/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial - wmv
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Moore's Law

Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.  Read more...
By Steve Jones 2009/09/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: editorial - ipod
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EVA Partition Alignment

Partition alignment is a well documented best practice, but does it have any benefit on an HP EVA?  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/09/09 | Source: SQL-Server-Pro | Category: hardware
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