Results of CPU power saving survey
At the end of December I showed you how to discover if power saving is enabled on your server, which can lead to variable and
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At the end of December I showed you how to discover if power saving is enabled on your server, which can lead to variable and
Last Tuesday I hosted T-SQL Tuesday #012 (see here for the call for participation) and posed the question "why are DBA skills necessary?" This month
Last time I posted about SSDs I presented the findings from sequential inserts with a variety of configurations and basically concluded that SSDs do not provide
Blog posts in this series: For the hardware setup I'm using, see this post. For an explanation of log growth and its effect on perf, see this
Blog posts in this series: For the hardware setup I'm using, see this post. For an explanation of log growth and its effect on perf, see this
Christmas comes but once a year… really? Then mine just came early on this afternoon's UPS truck. The very nice folks at Fusion-io just sent
I've been spending some time reorganizing my electronic components and came across a serious blast from the past… (Click the image for a larger
I was reading a thread on SQL Server Central today where someone replied to a question and confused 823 with 832. Now, 823 is a
Part of being a Microsoft Regional Director is getting early access to information and private releases to play with. They also hand out free stuff
Last week's survey was another two-fold one – when you buy new servers, what architecture to you predominantly buy, and why?; when you buy new
I've just been setting up some of our new hardware, and wanted to do some background reading to ensure I use the correct disk partition
At the last few conferences I've presented at, there have been questions about using SSDs (Solid-State Drives) for enterprise storage and whether that will change
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