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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

I wrote a blog about it years ago too, however as time has marched on, guidance has changed a bit. Jonathan Kehayias has written an blog post How much memory does my SQL Server actually need , with a formula that helps establish the baseline for the maximum memory value. SQL Server 2016 introduced soft-NUMA nodes.

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Using Parallel Query with Amazon Aurora for MySQL

Percona

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. The second and third run used the cached data.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. is access to hardware devices. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache. These include data transfer (i.e.