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

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

You can also choose to look at event counts or at the time it takes to do operations. Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. Let’s now look at the operating system level. This workload is write intensive by this measure.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation.

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