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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Having done this before, it reminds me of CSS programming: you make a little change here and everything breaks, and you spend hours chasing your own tail.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache.

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