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

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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. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

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Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The right leader matters, as retired Admiral John Richardson attested.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. For ​​ more information about ​​ I/O ​​ caching requirements ​​ and SQL Server, see the following ​​ white papers on MSDN.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. SQLIOStress.exe The SQLIOStress test program (version 4.00.020 and later) contains special patterns to detect stale-read/lost-write problems quickly.

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