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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. The L3 cache size is 64MB. GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processors that Microsoft uses for many of their Azure VM series. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups. This issue is valid for on-premises, IaaS, and partially for Azure SQL Managed Instance. Statistics.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · This flag does NOT imply flush behaviors, only the avoidance of the system file cache.

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SQL Server Mysteries: The Case of TDE and Permanent Tempdb Encryption

SQL Server According to Bob

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 (and is also available for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Parallel Data Warehouse) with the purpose of encrypting your data at rest. c:public_symbols is a symbol cache and a folder I created on my laptop. Bob Ward.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I thought a few folks might be interested.