SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

SQL Server is designed to scale across the spectrum of small machines to enterprise class servers. The changes made in SQL Server 2017 CU4 improve resource usage on smaller machines, such as a VM or Container used for testing and development. For SQL Server 2017 CU4 the small environment threshold is 2GB. What Is A Small System?

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

As you can imagine, with a code base as large and vast as SQL Server, there is always room for improvement. The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) Engineering Rigor. There are a bunch of folks with compiler, linker, SQL Server code, testing and other disciplines who provided input.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. textBoxDisplay.Text += strText; } } } } }. Designer.cs.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Recently I blogged about the design of of the debugger bridge and the use of LLDB. Taking a closer look at the log and stepping though the LLDB code I found the read failure occurring because the memory address could not be located in the tracked VM map. The change is now under review so it can be added back to the LLDB code base.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns.

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