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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 #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

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