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Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:23 PM

How far can you push Windows?….

As a member of technical support, it does seem I see users pushing our software to the limit more than most. But how does Windows really behave when pushed to the limit on resources? Well an excellent series of blog posts is available for you to find
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:20 PM

SQL Server and the Bad CPU

From time to time I encounter an issue where the physical CPU is the source of the problem.   I hope you never encounter such and issue but I wanted to provide an example to help those that will. Customer started getting frequent dumps from
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:30 AM

Sparse File Errors: 1450 or 665 due to file fragmentation: Fixes and Workarounds

You might be familiar with the sparse file problem that Bob Dorr has blogged about in the past. http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2008/07/10/sql-server-reports-operating-system-error-1450-or-1452-or-665-retries.aspx . We wanted to update you with the
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:24 PM

SQL Server I/O Bottleneck, I don't have one, YES YOU DO!

The mistake I see people make is when looking at the SQL Server PAGE I/O waits and stalled I/O warnings is when comparing it to the Avg. Disk Seconds/Transfer.    Everyone seems to forget that average means average and they look at the
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:36 AM

SQL Server, Windows Server 2008, and the Windows Firewall

Sounds like a movie title. No, it is actually a topic you need to know about if you plan to install SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008. Instead of me trying to explain the details I would rather you learn from the experts on this
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