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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. DynamoDB frees developers from the headaches of provisioning hardware and software, setting up and configuring a distributed database cluster, and managing ongoing cluster operations.