Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems. I was officially a one-day-a-week sysadmin for about ten workstations and servers. It had a 6809 CPU and ran an operating system called Flex9.

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MAY 26, 2020

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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.

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SQL Server According to Bob

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When executing a query to enumerate the locks, such as select * from sys.dm_tran_locks, how does SQL Server scan the locks and avoid impacting the overall concurrency? I recently posted on aspects of the SQL Server Lock Manager and found the iteration of the locks interesting as I was stepping in the code. link] [link].

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 31, 2018

Update Oct 2018 – SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0. SQL Server 2019 changes the DELTE On CLOSE behavior used on Linux installations. I changed the code to call unlink after open completes preventing new access to the file. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Restart the VM.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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MAY 4, 2022

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JULY 18, 2022

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MARCH 3, 2020

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MARCH 17, 2020

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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AUGUST 24, 2021

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. Apply here.

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JUNE 10, 2022

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MARCH 18, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. Apply here.

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JULY 15, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. Apply here.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

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JUNE 29, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. Apply here.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Apply here.

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JUNE 8, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. Apply here.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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MAY 18, 2021

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APRIL 7, 2021

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MARCH 18, 2021

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Reference APIs such as: CryptDecrypt.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 23, 2017

The test in question is designed to cause large amounts of deadlocks in order to stress the deadlock detection and resolution code paths. SQL Server limits the background tasks to a total of five (5) tasks to avoid flooding the scheduler with deadlock output tasks. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

Note: SQL Server can be a client using a linked server, allowing SQL Server to become an APP and/or an RM ). The application then uses the SQL Server client (SQL Server ODBC for this example) to establish a TDS based connection to the target SQL Server (local or remote.). Local Host Name. The olehlp!

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

Last March I moved from 22 years in SQL Server support to the SQL Server development team, working on SQL Server on Linux project and reporting to Slava Oks. As Slava highlights in his recent blog post , he also contacted me in early 2015 to assist with supportability of SQL Server on Linux. There are no burning secrets.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

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SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 27, 2017

SQL Server is running on Windows and encounters an exception. The dump includes the faulting thread’s memory, indirect memory referenced by the thread, SQL server ring buffers and a bit more memory. SQL Server is running on Linux and encounters an exception within a SQL Server module. Often 10+GB.

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JUNE 19, 2018

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JUNE 4, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Who's Hiring?

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

To some of you SQL Server On Linux is old news from various announcements made a couple of months ago. Yes, SQL Server runs on Linux! It was Jan 2015, in my previous supportability role, that I started looking at SQL Server on Linux. I proceeded to install an Ubuntu VM and the internal build of SQL Server on Linux.

Servers 40

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

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