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 …
Understanding the Meltdown exploit – in my own simple words + read more
Today I’ve announced my SQLpassion Online Training for October 2017. On October 5 I’m running a one-day long webinar about SQL Server Locking & Blocking. If you are interested in attending one of the online trainings, hurry up for registration because the space is limited! Thanks for your time, -Klaus
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, …
Do you ever wanted to know how a simple CPU is actually implemented? + read more
Today I have uploaded my 1st Web Cast to YouTube. In this Web Cast I have talked today about SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1. Make sure to signup for my next Web Cast on February 29 where I will talk about Troubleshooting CXPACKET Waits in SQL Server. Thanks for your time, -Klaus
A question that I get asked very often during my various SQL Server Consulting engagements is on how many NUMA nodes SQL Server is running on. Therefore I want to show you in today‘s blog post a few ways and techniques to find out how many NUMA nodes your SQL Server has. For a general …
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