One under publicized new feature in SQL Server 2012 is called Memory Error Recovery. This feature allows SQL Server 2012 to repair clean pages in the buffer pool by reading the pages again from disk. These “soft” errors are caused by electrical or magnetic interference inside a server that cause single bits inside of DRAM [...]
Glenn Berry
Semi-random musings about SQL Server performance
Memory Error Recovery in SQL Server 2012
Posted on: August 21, 2012 1:46 pm
Hardware 101 Presentation in Bellevue, WA – August 14, 2012
Posted on: August 15, 2012 2:10 am
I recently had the opportunity to give a one hour presentation called Hardware 101: An Introduction to Database Hardware during the evening, after a full day of SQLskills Immersion Event 2 (IE2) training. Even though it was an evening event, after almost 10 hours of intense training that day, nearly all of the students stayed [...]
