All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. Primitives not frameworks.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

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. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. ​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. changed the transaction log design to prevent sector rewrites, see ​​ SQL Server 7.0,

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