A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26
For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a...
2011-04-26
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 25
For Day 25 of this series, I want to talk about how you go about picking a CPU for your...
2011-04-25
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 23
For Day 23 of this series, I want to talk a little about some things to consider as you make...
2011-04-24
887 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 24
For Day 24 of this series, I want to talk a little bit about the TPC-E OLTP benchmark.
The TPC...
2011-04-24
743 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 22
For Day 22 of this series, I want to talk a little about 32-bit vs. 64-bit hardware, and the related...
2011-04-23
744 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 21
For Day 21 of this series, I will talk about processor cache size and its relationship to SQL Server performance.
Cache...
2011-04-21
910 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 20
For Day 20 of this series, we are going to talk about some factors to consider if you are thinking...
2011-04-20
775 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 19
For Day 19 of this series, I am going to briefly discuss hardware RAID controllers, also known as disk array...
2011-04-19
546 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 17
For Day 17 of this series, I am going to talk about Geekbench. Geekbench is a cross-platform, synthetic benchmark tool...
2011-04-18
599 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 18
For Day 18 of the series, we will talk about AMD Turbo CORE technology. AMD Turbo CORE is a technology...
2011-04-18
530 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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