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.
2012-03-09 (first published: 2010-04-08)
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
The Mystery Of The Slow Last Row
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-29
2,259 reads
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...
2011-03-01
3,045 reads
Giving Back, SQLMeetings.com Is Going Live Soon
I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
2010-12-10
618 reads
Sometimes, you have to fix it yourself
The Problem
SQL Server is a huge product with lots of moving parts. Bugs happen. Microsoft has a place to voice...
2010-02-24
2,200 reads
Quick Tip Of The Day
Over and over again we are told that the DMV’s only hold data since your last reboot. So, how do...
2010-02-19
2,937 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction
In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...
2009-12-15
4,053 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Disk Controllers, Host Bus Adapters, and Interfaces
We have covered the Hard Disk and the System Bus. This time around we will cover disk controllers and host...
2009-12-11
3,898 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Capturing IO Patterns
We often take the advice given to us on forums or in articles at face value. Even though the authors...
2009-11-27
3,278 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems - The Basics of Spinning Disks
Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.
To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-28
2,687 reads
Blogs
Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric specialization from scratch
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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger
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I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter...
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This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues...
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CPU Performance Advice in SQL Server 2005
I am having problems with CPU performance on SQL Server 2005. CPU spikes frequently...
CPU Performance Advice in SQL Server 2005
I am having problems with CPU performance on SQL Server 2005. CPU spikes frequently...
Duplicate Documents
Hi Experts, I am trying to find duplicate documents stored in our Filestream database....
Question of the Day
Subqueries II
What is wrong (if anything) with this code?
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