Dell 12th Generation Rack Mounted Server Comparison
I think it is useful to examine the various 12th generation, rack-mounted server models available from Dell, comparing them from a SQL Server perspective. There are currently seven models in this line,...
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If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, or ever heard me do one of my hardware presentations, you have probably heard my exhortations to “Never let anyone talk you into reusing old hardware for a...
View ArticleA SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 22
I have written previously about Building a Workstation for SQL Server 2012 Development and Testing and Building a Larger Capacity SQL Server 2012 Workstation. In those posts, I talked about the fact...
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A SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 23
For Day 23 of this series, I am going to briefly discuss hardware RAID controllers, also known as disk array controllers. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about RAID controllers: A disk array...
View ArticleA SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 25
For Day 24 of this series, I want to talk about the recent history of Dell rack-mounted servers, to help illustrate how processor performance and server capacity has dramatically improved over the past...
View ArticleA SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 28
For Day 28 of this series, we are going to talk about some factors to consider if you are thinking about building a desktop SQL Server 2012 system for development or testing use. I get lots of...
View ArticleBigger Database Servers Get Faster
For quite some time, I have been talking about how current Intel-based four-socket database servers have had significantly lower single-threaded processor performance than current Intel-based...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Hardware Analysis Case Study
Imagine that you have been given the go-ahead to upgrade your entire data platform stack from SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition to SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition. You need to come up with a...
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Dell Inspiron 5480 Laptop Review
I recently had a chance to work on someone’s new Dell Inspiron 5480 laptop recently, doing some memory and storage upgrades. I also installed and patched a fresh copy of Windows 10 Professional,...
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