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

Adrian Cockcroft

Our team also produced The Guide to High Availability by storage expert Jeannie Johnstone Kobert, Sun Cluster Environment by Enrique Vargas, Solaris PC Netlink by Don Devitt (we had a great team outing near Boston on his sailboat), and several other books. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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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. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

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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.