Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!

In the world of data it’s always been about speed. SSD’s have become very common on consumer machines and not unusual in corporate datacenters.

Selecting an Appropriate Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family Processor for SQL Server 2012

Intel has finally released the 22nm Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family (Ivy Bridge-EP) of processors that will be used in two-socket...

Free eBook: SQL Server Hardware

SQL Server Hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal installation and configuration, of SQL Server hardware, operating system and the SQL Server RDBMS.

The Great Laptop Search of 2013

It’s time for a new laptop. I don’t think it’s time, as I love the Macbook Air I bought a...

Benchmark SQL Server Disk Latency

Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...

Windows 2012 for the DBA Setting Your Server to High Performance

Hello Dear Reader!  I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Server 2012 lately.  The interface is wildly different...

Running SQLIO with Multiple Files

Not exactly groundbreaking information, but were you aware that you can run SQLIO with multiple files?  Until a couple months...

A New Type of Colocation Facility

Microsoft is working on their generation 4 data centers, which might be a great idea for companies if they can implement a private cloud.

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