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Re: Large Pages and SQL Server

statisticsio — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:19:51 -0000

Updated. http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2009/06/05...

Re: Firefighting with Wait Stats

statisticsio — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:49:58 -0000

Jeff - This blog was migrated from http://statisticsio.com. This looks like a bug in that move. Check out http://statisticsio.com/Home/tabid/36/articleTy...

Re: Capt. Varchar & the Pagelatch Posse Vol. 26

statisticsio — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:05:27 -0000

The DBA is everywhere and nowhere until the observer comes into play.

Re: Scaling up vs. Scaling out

twitter-14899456 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:55:15 -0000

It seems to me that until you squeeze out optimal performance from the existing hardware (as you note as the first line of defense), scaling out could have multiples greater power/heat costs than scaling up.

It's all good and fine to get 10x the hardware for the dollar up front, but that savings can be eroded quite quickly if all you have is a farm of wasteful boxes drin(k)ing power and punishing your A/C. Which is exactly what happens if you aren't first focused on optimizing things.

Re: Scaling up vs. Scaling out

statisticsio — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:41:58 -0000

I haven't directly compared power and heat but the 785's mentioned in Jeff's post have 6 power supplies and are 7u. I doubt you would put more than two in a cabinet.

Re: The Changing Face of Community

statisticsio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:54:19 -0000

I am still learning Wordpress apparently...
http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/01/the-chan...

Re: The Changing Face of Community

Adam Machanic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:38:02 -0000

First of all, you're not the only Internet user. Perhaps you are connected 24x7, but many people--myself included--are most definitely not.

Second, Twitter?! Sorry, but you've gone off the deep end if you think Twitter is any kind of replacement for NNTP. Twitter is a chat engine, designed for short, quick messages. It is not a forum for deep or involved conversations, and although some search capabilities exist they're a far cry from Google Groups. In addition, messages are barely threaded and it's far too easy to lose track of where a "discussion" is going. And it's certainly not any more real-time than NNTP. They both work on a very similar asynchronous request/response architecture. Please don't confuse the fact that your Twitter client asks for updates more often than your NNTP client might with whether one is more "real-time" than the other.

Hell, this blog is a better medium for in-depth conversation than Twitter. Do you think I could have typed all of this out in 140-character increments?

Re: The Changing Face of Community

statisticsio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:19:49 -0000

The ability to work offline is as relevant as postal mail. Now is the ability to work mobile.

I can't say anything about the distributed, fault tolerant point but I speculate the same guys that wrote the DNS rfc wrote the NNTP rfc.

Search is way better on twitter and friendfeed. It is a real time pulse of what is going on in the world. Real time is the key imo. Usenet can't do that by design.

I have have to disagree with the tools thing too. It is way too easy to post to twitter or facebook. There even used to be a voice to text telephone number you could use.

Don't get me wrong. I like the usenet and it works well but so did the pony express.

Re: SQL Server is a Real Database

statisticsio — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:31:17 -0000

Awesome Juice.

Re: Amazon to provide SQL Server "Cloud" Offering

baint — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:29:42 -0000

I beleive it is something open, Xen (http://www.xen.org/).

Re: Amazon to provide SQL Server "Cloud" Offering

statisticsio — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:33:18 -0000

Do you have any idea if ec2 is just ESX server or something proprietary?

Re: Update: Oracles Cloud Offering

statisticsio — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:17:45 -0000

Well then he obviously doesn't get it. Oracle on ec2 is not a cloud database. It is basically shared database hosting.

Re: SQL Server 2008 RC0 coming soon? > > SQL Server Blog by Jason Massie

statisticsio — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:40:51 -0000

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