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
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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
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
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
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
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 did a live presentation at the May 21, 2015 meeting of the Denver SQL Server User’s Group, which was held at the newly remodeled
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is a specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. It gives lower storage latency and
One issue I recently ran into with a customer was a case where they were using a new, two-socket server with two Intel Xeon E5-2697
Intel finally announced their latest 22nm Xeon E5 v3 Product Family (Haswell-EP) today, which includes 27 different processor models (SKUs) for both one and two-socket
On October 9-10, 2014, I will be teaching IEHW: Immersion Event on SQL Server Hardware in Chicago, IL. This is a great opportunity for you
On May 5-6, 2014, I will be teaching IEHW: Immersion Event on SQL Server Hardware in Chicago, IL. This is a great opportunity for you
If you are in the process of evaluating and selecting the components for a new database server to run an OLTP workload on SQL Server
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