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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. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries.