Monthly Archives: February 2012

What I Want For My Birthday

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Glenn Berry

Dell has teased us with some images of their upcoming 12th Generation servers (that will support the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP processor). The PowerEdge R720xd is shown below. I want one of these… Some more detailed information about these new servers … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Glenn Berry

Since it is nearly March, I will go ahead and jump the gun by a few days and post an updated version of my SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012. For this version, I have added information … Continue reading →

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New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008 R2

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Glenn Berry

On Feb 22, 2012, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 10.50.2806. This CU has 16 fixes listed. If you are still on the SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM code branch, you would want … Continue reading →

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Behemoth of the Server Room?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Glenn Berry

Back during the PASS 2011 Summit in Seattle, I was interviewed by Tony Davis, Andrew Clark, and Rodney Landrum about hardware, storage subsystems and virtualization.  This was a fun little impromptu interview, filmed in a somewhat quiet location during the … Continue reading →

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Building or Buying a Desktop Based Development and Test Database Server

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Glenn Berry

Back in April of 2011, I wrote a post that compared the merits of using an ancient, but actual rack mounted server versus a new desktop based system for testing and development work. It is pretty common for old retired … Continue reading →

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AMD 2012-2013 Server Roadmap

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Glenn Berry

AMD had their 2012 Financial Analyst Day today, which is basically a dog and pony show for stock analysts. Previously, AMD had talked about introducing a new G2012 platform in 2012/2013, which would use 10 and 20-core processors called Sepang … Continue reading →

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