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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Modern network performance and availability. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Thoughts on SQL Server 2019 Editions

SQL Performance

The product is not released yet, at least at the time of writing, but they have started to shape which features (and there are a lot of them ) will be available in which editions. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1." Accelerated Database Recovery is in Standard Edition.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Using Parallel Query with Amazon Aurora for MySQL

Percona

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. I’m using the “Airlines On-Time Performance” database from [link] (You can find the scripts I used here: [link] ). With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) MySQL on ec2.

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The SQL Server Basic Installer: Just Install It!

SQL Server According to Bob

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

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