SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support?

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. From 1975 to 2005, our industry accomplished a phenomenal mission: In 30 years, we put a personal computer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. The free lunch is over. Galaxy S II, Droid X2, iPhone 4S). There’s no going back.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. Why, exactly, did Linux do this?

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This effort resulted in: · Changes to the SQL Server Engine · Changes to the SQL Server Linux Host Extension · Validation with the Windows Storage team · Validation with Windows Hyper-V team · Validation with Windows Azure Storage team · Conversations with Red Hat, HP, SUSE and Intel · Changes in the Linux file system. Device Flush.

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