I’m thrilled to announce a three-part remote education event in conjunction with the Iowa SQL Server community! The topic is SQL Server IaaS and virtualization performance tuning, and it’s...
2021-12-31 (first published: 2021-12-12)
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Back in March 2020 Glenn Berry created the #SQLFamily Folding@Home team and many of us joined in donating compute cycles to helping find a cure for various diseases to...
2021-12-22 (first published: 2021-12-12)
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This blog post shows you how NTFS stores data, what the NTFS Allocation Unit means, and how SQL Server performs IOs of variable size.
How NTFS Stores Data on Disk...
2021-12-29 (first published: 2021-12-10)
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Microsoft recently came out with a blog on a bunch of new features available for Azure Synapse Analytics (see Azure Synapse Analytics November 2021 Update), and I wanted to...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-09)
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