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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. SQL Server always checks I/O completion status for any operating system error conditions and proper data transfer size and then handles errors appropriately. Without this capability, ​​ SQL Server could not rely on the system to support WAL protocol needs.

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