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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

By way of example, nations have low tolerance to bank failures because the panic that results from them has knock-on effects in the financial and real economies alike (as exemplified by Lehman in September, 2008). From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Test Environment. It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. Row Store Clustered Index. Final Thoughts.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Building "incident creators" - servers which test our ability to maintain peak performance. hands freeÃ? and took near zero development effort.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” Millions of tests, across as many parameters as will fit on the hardware.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. The following table is taken from an ASP.NET, session state cache, stress test.

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Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug.

Randon ASCII

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough. I decided it was time to try science.