Tag Archives: Database Hardware

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 4

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Glenn Berry

Day 4 of this series is about the upcoming AMD “Bulldozer” family of processors that is due to be released in Q3 2011. This will be a 32nm processor that will be used in both desktop systems and server systems. … Continue reading →

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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 3

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Glenn Berry

Lest anyone accuse me of ignoring AMD in this series, I will talk about the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors today.  AMD released several new models in this family on February 14, 2011, the most interesting of which is the … Continue reading →

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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 2

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Glenn Berry

For Day 2 of this blog series, I am going to talk a little about the upcoming Intel Westmere-EX processor family. Instead of this processor series being called the Intel Xeon 7600 series (as was expected), it is going to … Continue reading →

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