Building an Intel Haswell Desktop System for SQL Server 2012 Development
The 22nm 4th generation Intel Core desktop processors (aka Haswell) have been available for sale for a couple of months now, so I have had
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The 22nm 4th generation Intel Core desktop processors (aka Haswell) have been available for sale for a couple of months now, so I have had
I had the opportunity to present a preview session of my upcoming day-long pre con, Scaling SQL Server 2012 for the last slot of the
It still looks like the 2nd generation, 22nm Intel Xeon E5-1600 v2 and E5-2600 v2 families (Ivy Bridge-EP), for single and two-socket servers, will launch
On July 25, I will be presenting for the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter at 12PM Mountain Time. I will be giving my Hardware 201 presentation.
One of the things I do at SQLskills is paid consulting for customers who are looking to upgrade their database servers to new hardware, a
More details about the upcoming 22nm Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors (aka Ivy Bridge-EP) are starting to leak out. Initially, we will see the single-socket
I had the opportunity to present Hardware 201 in Boulder on June 18 and then do it again in Denver on June 20. It was
HP recently submitted a TPC-E benchmark result for a two-socket HP ProLiant DL385p Gen 8 system that is using two 2.8GHz AMD Opteron 6386SE, 16-core
I will be speaking at the Boulder SQL Server User’s Group on June 18, 2013. I will be presenting an updated version of Hardware 201.
This month the SQLskills team is presenting a series of blog posts aimed at helping Accidental/Junior DBAs ‘keep the SQL Server lights on’. It’s a
Last Sunday, I was in line at 11AM at the Denver Micro Center (along with a number of other computer geeks) to buy the parts
On May 31, Microsoft finally posted SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 4, which is Build 11.0.3368. This release was about two weeks
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