Building a Desktop Workstation for SQL Server Development and Testing
Back in March of 2014, I wrote a fairly long blog post called Building a Workstation for SQL Server 2014 Development and Testing, which still
Back in March of 2014, I wrote a fairly long blog post called Building a Workstation for SQL Server 2014 Development and Testing, which still
This month, I spent quite a bit of time synchronizing the scripts between the SQL Server 2016, 2014, and 2012 versions, making sure the small
Samsung has announced their new 950 PRO M.2 PCIe NVMe solid state drive, which is potentially great news if you are considering building a new
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 8, which is Build 11.0.5634.1. This CU has 23 fixes in the public fix
On September 18, 2015, I will be presenting Analyzing and Improving I/O Subsystem Performance as an all day pre-conference session the day before SQLSaturday #441
On August 17, 2015, Microsoft released SQL Server 2014 SP1 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 12.0.4422. This CU has 44 hotfixes in the public
Franck Delattre has released CPU-Z 1.73, which adds more Windows 10 support, an L4 cache frequency display (useful for some Intel Broadwell processors), and a
This month, I have added a new query for SQL Server 2016, that checks your QueryStore options. The SQL Server 2016 version will continue to
Over the past six years, I have written a number of articles and blog posts about processor selection for SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014,
I have a series of blog posts (that I try to keep updated over time) that list I what I consider to be the more
As of August 8, 2017, there have been thirteen Cumulative Updates (CU) for the Service Pack 1 branch of SQL Server 2014. There have been
This month, I have added a couple of new queries for SQL Server 2016, including one that uses QueryStore. This version will continue to be
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