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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer. Note: You may need to execute the dbcc a second time so buffer cache is hot, eliminating I/O sub-system variants. insert into tblDBCC (strData) values ( replicate(N’X’, 2000) ).

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

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. SQL Server.

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