by David | Mar 29, 2017 | Performance, Technology
Watch your memory configuration! You can’t just throw RAM in a physical server and expect it to work right. Depending on your DIMM configuration, you might have accidentally slowed down your memory speed, which will surely slow down your application servers....
by David | Mar 20, 2017 | SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization
On Thursday, March 23rd, at 2pm Eastern, I will be hosting a webinar with Argenis Fernandez from Pure Storage where we will talk about infrastructure challenges as organizations start to adopt SQL Server’s in-memory features, such as In-Memory OLTP and...
by David | May 22, 2015 | Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
A few weeks ago, while at the incredible SQL Saturday Madison, I had a great discussion with a few of the other speakers about SQL Server VM-level memory counters and their (lack of) validity on the actual memory usage properties of the SQL Server engine. A while...
