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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. Enterprise environments are monitored, continuously profiled, and analyzed on a regular basis, so this capability will indeed be put to use.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Waits data is surfaced by many SQL Server performance monitoring solutions, and I've been an advocate of tuning using this methodology since the beginning.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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