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

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

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SQL Server on IoT Edge and Developer Machines – Smaller Footprint

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server. Description.

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SQL Server Linux: fsync and Buffered I/O

SQL Server According to Bob

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) The issue, as described in the link, is that the sync returns the error but may clear the state of the cached pages.

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Architectural Myopia

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Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. In industry, engineers (me included) sometimes attack a problem with the tools they have readily available rather than taking a step back and examining the issue at large.

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Viewing and Sorting XEvents Efficiently (Code Samples) – XEProfiler

SQL Server According to Bob

How It Works: XEvent Output and Visualization SQL Server Management Studio Provides–“XE Profiler” Use the SSMS XEvent Profiler. Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and storing the events in a table requires reading the events, streaming to table storage followed by an order by event sequence query. TSQL Sample Session.