Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

Compare that to the relatively robust period of 2005 , when real interest rate curves were positive. That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation. In real terms, interest rates are still negative for 5 and 10 year horizons.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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