The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. The graphic below (Fig.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Improvements in SQL Server 2016. The subject of this post is the additional changes that are enabled for metadata-only from SQL Server 2016 onward. ALTER COLUMN id bigint NOT NULL ; Thanks to the improvements in SQL Server 2016, this command changes metadata only , and completes immediately. Acknowledgements.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. You can take advantage of this effort packaged in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 supports 3X more physical memory than previous versions. – [link]. Follow-up.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects. Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Trace flag –T8048 longer exists in SQL Server 2016.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In the early days of the personal computer, every computer manufacturer needed software engineers who could write low-level drivers that performed the work of reading and writing to memory boards, hard disks, and peripherals such as modems and printers. Schillace asks, What if traditional software engineering isnt fully relevant here?

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices.

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