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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Beginning with SQL Server 2016, you can now specify similar logic based on fragmentation levels.

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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. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Linux open command flag used to bypass file system cache.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu.