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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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)
35,927 reads
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-29
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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
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I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
2010-12-10
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The Problem
SQL Server is a huge product with lots of moving parts. Bugs happen. Microsoft has a place to voice...
2010-02-24
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Over and over again we are told that the DMV’s only hold data since your last reboot. So, how do...
2010-02-19
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In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...
2009-12-15
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We have covered the Hard Disk and the System Bus. This time around we will cover disk controllers and host...
2009-12-11
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We often take the advice given to us on forums or in articles at face value. Even though the authors...
2009-11-27
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Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.
To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-28
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From June 1, 2023, Microsoft Fabric (preview) capacities are available via the Azure portal....
Always Encrypted was a new encryption feature added to SQL Server with the 2016...
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