My latest article on SQLPerformance.com was published today and highlights the potential for performance problems while using the hot-add vCPU feature in ESX 5+ with wide VMs for SQL Server.
This is a potentially hidden problem with serious performance implications that should be checked for if you are using VMware to run wide VMs with greater than 8 vCPUs on NUMA hardware.
Back in 2012, I wrote a post titled Looking at External Disk Performance using USB 3.0 and eSATA with SSD, where I tested a number
It happens to the best of us and this post is more of a reminder for myself the next time it happens to me than
It’s not often that I have the need or opportunity to work with FullText Indexes, and it’s also not often that I come across a
This blog post is a part of a series on SQL Server Transactional Replication. If you want to find the other posts in the series,
This blog post is a part of a series on SQL Server Transactional Replication. If you want to find the other posts in the series,
Recently I have been having quite a few discussions around security of data inside of SQL Server and how to prevent the massive data breaches
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