Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. – Cloud.

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SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 25, 2017

I recently visited a customer onsite and presented to them topics on SQL Server 2016. One question I got went like this “I’ve tried to restore a database on SQL Server using the WITH STATS option. We now have a new way of instrumenting the backup/restore process for any database or transaction log.

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SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 21, 2017

I recently visited a customer onsite and presented to them topics on SQL Server 2016. One question I got went like this “I’ve tried to restore a database on SQL Server using the WITH STATS option. We now have a new way of instrumenting the backup/restore process for any database or transaction log.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 10, 2019

The ISO/IEC 9075:2016 standard, or SQL:2016 in short, introduces support for a profound concept called Row Pattern Recognition (RPR) in SQL. I posted a suggestion to improve SQL Server by adding support for RPR in T-SQL , but I was quite limited in the space that I had to provide the feedback.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. without web app servers?—?to We plan to test this out when we get the chance. But this year? Step Functions.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams achieving this level of discipline about performance begin to eliminate variance from their lab data by running tests in "less noisy" environments than somewhere like a developer's laptop, a shared server, or a VM with underlying system variance. miAi3020A9G #perfmatters 1 10:04 AM · Jul 7, 2016.

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