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

Adrian Cockcroft

We ran what our datacenter designer Rob Snevely (who wrote a Blueprint book that contains a chapter by Elizabeth Purcell) named the Can of Worms Project, where we would install and run performance tests on large server configurations that were more customer-like and complex than the usual test or benchmarking environments that engineering teams ran.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

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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