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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. MS SQL Server/Linux and Windows. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. HammerDB CLI v3.1