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SQL Server on IoT Edge and Developer Machines – Smaller Footprint

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server. Description.

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SQL Server 2017 Improved Resource Usage On Smaller Machines

SQL Server According to Bob

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. What Is A Small System?

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SQL Server on Linux: Scatter/Gather == Vectored I/O

SQL Server According to Bob

If my memory serves me correctly SQL Server started using the ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather APIs in SQL Server 6.5 On Linux the capabilities are called “ Vectored I/O.” – Example writev SQL Server on Linux takes full advantage of vectored I/O, retaining the performance and design benefits.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 1?—?Starting Out

Adrian Cockcroft

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. It also got me a side job looking after the new Unix systems they started to use, and in 1984 we were one of the first customers of Sun Microsystems.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

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SQL Server on Linux: ELF and PE Images Just Work

SQL Server According to Bob

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.

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Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. On top of that, PHP is used to run famous content management systems like Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal. Regarding command-line and server-side scripts, PHP is easy for users to understand and use.

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