Tag Archives: Database Weekly

Normalizing Performance

Posted on November 2, 2014 by way0utwest

This week I ran across a post from Glenn Berry on hardware performance that I thought framed the concept of performance value well. In the post, Glenn talks about the latest TPC-E benchmark and the SQL Server performance values that … Continue reading →

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Saving Hard Dollars

Posted on October 5, 2014 by way0utwest

This week I ran across an analytics piece that talks about how Big Data and analysis can do more than help marketing, it can also create hard dollars for your company. Companies are using sensors and technology for mundane tasks, … Continue reading →

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Watson Freemium

Posted on September 20, 2014 by way0utwest

I’ve been intrigued by the Watson project from IBM. It was quite a coup to see the platform win on Jeopardy. That’s an amazing accomplishment for machine learning, though it does seem like the investment and effort to set up the platform and … Continue reading →

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The Flash Database

Posted on August 23, 2014 by way0utwest

I caught this piece on the impact of flash storage on database engine design this week. It’s interesting as there’s been debate for years as to whether SQL Server should alter its behavior if it detects SSDs being used for … Continue reading →

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