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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

The winners will be those that view their business from the eyes of their customers and understand that fast-paced innovation is the key to long-term growth. Digitalization starts with having the right mindset: namely one aimed at creating innovative digital experiences. The digital era is here.

Strategy 112
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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Recently, a SentryOne customer contacted me about performance concerns with their SentryOne database. The Top Queries That Weren't.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Another advantage of field measurements is that they match the approach taken by Google in order to collect performance data into the CrUX database.

Website 124
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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Some of the biggest innovations inside Amazon S3 have been how to use software techniques to mask many of the issues that would easily have paralyzed every other storage system.

Storage 72
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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. 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? ​​ All rights reserved.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Thomas, 2006. McFadden, 1974. Fano, 2002. Talluri, G. van Ryzin, 2005.

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