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SQLpassion Online Training in June 2019

On June 24, 2019 I’m running a one-day long webinar about SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals. In this one-day long webinar you will learn about: How to access your data through Indexes Heap Tables Clustered Index Non-Clustered Index Index Scans Index Seeks Execution Plans Overview Estimated Execution Plan Actual Execution Plan Data Access Operators Join …

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Understanding the Meltdown exploit – in my own simple words

As you might (hopefully) know, there was a serious CPU exploit exposed this week (called Meltdown), which will cause all Intel CPUs from the past 20 years to misbehave and return you critical, private data from other applications or even other VMs in a virtualized environment. The terrible thing about Meltdown is that the exploit …

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Do you ever wanted to know how a simple CPU is actually implemented?

Today’s blog posting is a little bit off-topic, but still quite interested when you work in the IT area. Maybe a few of you already know it, but over the last few years I have worked (and I’m still working) on a quite interesting side project: I’m developing my own CPU based on primitive AND, …

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