A SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 2
For Day 2 of this blog series, I am going to talk about some of the upcoming Intel Xeon processors that we can look forward
For Day 2 of this blog series, I am going to talk about some of the upcoming Intel Xeon processors that we can look forward
Well, I apparently have not learned my lesson yet, after I did a month long series called “A DMV a Day” back in 2010 and
I witnessed an interesting conversation on Twitter today where someone was talking about how he uses the terms sockets and cores interchangeably, since everyone else
CPUID has released a new processor performance and monitoring tool called PerfMonitor 2, which allows you to track four processor-related counters chosen from a processor-specific
I have received quite a bit of positive feedback about my recent post, Building a Workstation for SQL Server 2012 Development and Testing, so I
Intel has recently introduced a couple of flash-based storage products that are aimed at the Enterprise and server market. These are both quite price competitive
With the current crop of high-performance and very affordable desktop computer components, it is not very difficult to assemble an extremely high performance workstation for
Just when I was not looking, two new official TPC-E results have been posted in the last week. IBM has a 3218.46 TPC-E score for
If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, watched my Understanding Server Hardware course on Pluralsight or ever heard me speak at a conference,
If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, or ever heard me do one of my hardware presentations, you have probably heard my exhortations
I think it is useful to examine the various 12th generation, rack-mounted server models available from Dell, comparing them from a SQL Server perspective. There
I recently had a chance to record a 33 minute podcast interview on RunAs Radio #281 with Richard Campbell, where I talked about the licensing
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