Using TPC-E OLTP Benchmark Scores to Compare Processors
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
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
I was doing some routine maintenance on one of the SQLskills lab servers (a pretty nice Dell PowerEdge R720) on Sunday night when I noticed
On February 18, 2013 Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 6, which is Build 11.0.2401. This CU has 22 fixes listed in the
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
On January 21, 2013, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 11.0.3339. This Cumulative Update has 50 hotfixes
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,
On October 16, 2012, I had the opportunity to speak at the second meeting of the Northern Colorado Database Professionals (NOCODP) on September 17, in
One under publicized new feature in SQL Server 2012 is called Memory Error Recovery. This feature allows SQL Server 2012 to repair clean pages in
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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