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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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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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 often performs reads in extent-sized (64 KB or 128 KB) boundaries as well. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities.

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