Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government
System will mix Epyc CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs.
2019-05-07
Hardware
Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop By Nearly 50% in 2019
According to a new financial presentation from Nidec, a Japanese motor manufacturer who is responsible for around 85% of all HDD spindle motors, the company believes that shipments of...
2019-05-06
Seagate Ships 16 TB PMR Hard Drives, Preps 18 TB SMR HDDs
Continuing the march of progress in the HDD industry, Seagate has revealed that they have started shipping their 16 TB PMR hard drives. In a quarterly earnings call last...
2019-05-06
Why You Shouldn’t Use an Intel Xeon Silver Processor for SQL Server
Processor-based licensing means selecting hardware carefully for good performance.
2019-05-03
ASRock DeskMini A300 Review: An Affordable DIY AMD Ryzen mini-PC
Small form-factor (SFF) machines have emerged as a major growth segment in the desktop PC market. Performance per watt is an important metric for such systems. Intel has pretty...
2019-04-26
New HP Spectre x360 Laptop
Introduction Earlier this week, I bought a new HP Spectre x360 13-AP0023DX convertible laptop at Best Buy. I have often criticized Best Buy as a bad place to buy...
2019-04-25
The Intel Optane Memory H10 Review: Two SSDs In One
Intel's latest SSD caching solution using 3D XPoint memory is here. This time, the Optane cache is paired with QLC NAND flash, and all bundled onto one M.2 module...
2019-04-22
Intel Optane Technology and SQL Server
You may have heard of Intel Optane Technology, but perhaps you aren’t quite sure what that term actually refers to, and whether it is relevant for SQL Server. Unfortunately,...
2019-04-14
Hands on with the 56-core Xeon Platinum 9200 CPU: Intel’s Biggest CPU Package Ever
When Intel announced the new Cascade Lake family as officially launched last week, it added a new product segment to its portfolio – the ‘Application Processor’ or AP. These...
2019-04-08
Pricing of Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules Leaks: From $6.57 Per GB
At least two retailers from the US on Friday have started to take pre-orders on Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory modules and therefore had to reveal their prices. Today...
2019-04-05
Blogs
AI and Data Engineering on the Edge: The Good, the Bad, and the Overhyped
Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone...
UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might...
Deciphering Data Architectures Is Now Available in Multiple Languages
By James Serra
Since the release of my book Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data...
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Secure Cached Plans
The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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