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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Users didn’t have to upend their daily driver operating system. But mainstream users? Not so much. No problem.

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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ SQL Server ​​ copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005.

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