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Our partners at Dell and HP have published 2 new TPC-H results with SQL Server 2008 using Fusion-io’s ioDrive solid-state technology. These are the first TPC results using solid-state technology and they illustrate the high performance along
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Since late last year, Microsoft has made the Attunity connectors to Oracle databases available to Enterprise Edition customers. We all recognized right away that these connectors were faster than the pre-existing options from either Microsoft or Oracle,
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Yesterday, Intel launched its new Xeon 5500 series processors, code named Nehalem-EP. This is essentially the first server-class version of what Intel launched on the desktop as Core i7 last fall. With no frontside bus, and an embedded, multi-channel
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We suppose a more appropriate title would have been: Better Late Than Never. David should begin by apologizing. Last month was the first anniversary of the ETL world record we set last year with SSIS, loading 1 TB of data in under 30 minutes. While Len
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After running an experiment, using datacenters on each coast of the U.S., our friends in MSCOM ops verified that the combination of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are great for enabling database geo-replication, thanks to a 100X gain in performance.
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At last week's WinHEC in Los Angeles, SQL GM Quentin Clark joined Windows Server VP Bill Laing on stage, to announce our upcoming support for more than 64 logical processors, the current limit in Windows and SQL Server. This expanded scale-up capability
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Glenn Paulley, Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, posted a commentary titled “ The State of TPC-E ” on his blog three weeks ago (10/3/08). A better title would have been “All TPC-E Results Are On Microsoft SQL Server. Why?” Mr. Paulley takes
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Just left the final shiproom meeting for SQL Server 2008, and am happy to say every team has signed off, so the product is now in the hands of manufacturing, and in process toward web and media availability for you. We've shipped! MSDN and TechNet subscriber
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Today, as the old saying goes, is a red-letter day, with the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008. Our team has been heads down, working to ensure SQL Server 2008 is delivered to you with great performance and scalability.
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Today at the launch of SQL Server 2008, you may have seen the references to world-record performance doing a load of data using SSIS. Microsoft and Unisys announced a record for loading data into a relational database using an Extract, Transform and Load
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I came across a question in the relationalserver.performance newsgroup where a customer was wondering about the spools seen in a recursive query execution plan. The query is shown below: USE Northwind; Go WITH EmpChart AS ( SELECT EmployeeId, ReportsTo,
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When doing a performance investigation a useful thing to do is look at what data is present in the buffer pool. This can be used to analyze impact of running a query on the state of data pages in buffer pool. By collecting the pre and post picture of
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The data flow task in SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) sends data in series of buffers. How much data does one buffer hold? This is bounded by DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferMaxSize, two Data Flow properties. They have default values of 10,000
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) allows parallel execution in two different ways. These are controlled by two properties as outlined below. The first one is MaxConcurrentExecutables, a property of the package. It defines how many tasks (executables)
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SQL Server Integration Services provide a set of performance counters. Among them the following few are helpful when you tune or debug your package: Buffers in use Flat buffers in use Private buffers in use Buffers spooled Rows read Rows written “Buffers
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