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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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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Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Brendan Gregg

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. For everyone familiar with other operating systems and their CPU load averages, including this state is at first deeply confusing. **Why?**

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