A SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 9
For Day 9 of this series, I want to talk about processor cache size and its relationship to SQL Server 2012 performance. Cache Size and
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For Day 9 of this series, I want to talk about processor cache size and its relationship to SQL Server 2012 performance. Cache Size and
For Day 8 of this series, I want to talk a little bit about the various hardware license limits that are present in SQL Server
For Day 7, I want to talk about one specific Intel processor series that I highly recommend that you do not use for SQL Server
For Day 6 of this series, I am going to talk about Geekbench. Geekbench is a cross-platform, synthetic benchmark tool from Primate Labs. It provides
For Day 5 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free from cpuid.com. The latest release
Since 2006, Intel has adopted what they call a Tick-Tock strategy for developing and releasing new processor models. Every two years, they introduce a new
Today, I am going to talk about the existing Intel Westmere-EX processor family. Instead of this processor series being called the Intel Xeon 7600 series
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
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
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
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