{"id":824,"date":"2013-08-20T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=824"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:51","slug":"new-versions-of-useful-tools-for-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/new-versions-of-useful-tools-for-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"New Versions of Useful Tools for SQL Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekbench.com\/\">completely rewritten version of Geekbench<\/a>, which is a very useful cross-platform processor and memory performance benchmark that you can use for comparing and validating processor and memory performance on anything from your laptop to a very expensive database server in just a few minutes, with no configuration of the benchmark needed. As the Primate Labs web site puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Geekbench 3 is Primate Labs&#8217; next-generation processor benchmark, with a new scoring system that separates single-core and multi-core performance, and new workloads that simulate real-world scenarios. Geekbench 3 makes it easier than ever to find out if your computer is up to speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666;\">There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpuid.com\/softwares\/cpu-z.html#version-history\">new 1.66 version of CPU-Z<\/a>, that has support for some upcoming processors, such as the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series (Ivy Bridge-EP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/\\Limage.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/\\Limage_thumb.png\" width=\"489\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a completely rewritten version of Geekbench, which is a very useful cross-platform processor and memory performance benchmark that you can use for comparing and validating processor and memory performance on anything from your laptop to a very expensive database server in just a few minutes, with no configuration of the benchmark needed. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,17,37],"tags":[116,190,96],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benchmarks","category-sql-server-hardware","category-tpc-e","tag-cpu-z","tag-free-tools","tag-geekbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}