Monthly Archives: November 2008

Energy Savings For a Desktop Computer

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Glenn Berry

I had an existing gaming PC that I built from parts about a year ago. It was based on an ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard (which uses a NVIDIA nForce 650i chipset), with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU. This … Continue reading →

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Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has a new whitepaper up on MSDN that shows some pretty dramatic performance gains when you use transactional replication between geographically distant Publishers and Subscribers with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.  Both the Publisher and Subscriber must … Continue reading →

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Intel X5560 Xeon System Benchmarked

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Glenn Berry

TechRadar got access to a dual-socket, Nehalem EP system (with two 2.8 GHz Nehalem CPUs and 24GB of DDR3 memory), and did some quick benchmarks. They showed some pretty incredible results (almost double the performance of a 3.4GHz, dual socket … Continue reading →

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Cumulative Update 2 For SQL Server 2008 Available

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has released CU2 for SQL Server 2008 RTM.  It is Build 1779. This KB article shows the builds that have been released since RTM. You should get an e-mail from Microsoft with the download link and password almost instantaneously … Continue reading →

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Intel Core i7 Lust

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Glenn Berry

The long awaited Intel Core i7 processor went on sale on November 16, both at NewEgg and MicroCenter. As is often the case, MicroCenter beats NewEgg’s price. MicroCenter has a small selection of processors, and they often are out of … Continue reading →

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Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) Almost Here

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Engadget has a post up showing a screenshot of where NewEgg had pricing information up for the upcoming Intel Core i7 processors, which are due to go on sale on November 17, 2008. They include the 2.66GHz 920 for $320, … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 Covering Index Question For MCIS-4423

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Glenn Berry

I have had a couple of questions about Assignment 6, so here is an explanation of the answer. Just to refresh our memory, here was the assignment: Imagine you have the following query that is performing poorly: SELECT e.EmployeeID, e.ManagerID, … Continue reading →

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President Elect Obama!

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Yes We Can! Yes We Did! I am so happy tonight. Now we can start to rebuild America…

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Early Nehalem i7 Benchmarks

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Glenn Berry

PC World in Greece has some early benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 965, 940, and 920, that show the newcomer kicking some serious butt vs. the older Core2 Duo and Core2 Quad cpus from Intel.  The Core i7 is … Continue reading →

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