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How It Works (It Just Runs Faster): Non-Volatile Memory SQL Server Tail Of Log Caching on NVDIMM

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. Block storage is what you think of today as disk access.

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

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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. Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Description.

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