Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

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Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

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