The old 32-bit Standard server crashed when tempdb hit 1.7GB. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise on 64-bit addressed terabytes of RAM. Lena watched Performance Monitor as the buffer pool grew to 28GB. Every join, every hash match, every sort happened in memory.
On go-live morning, the Union Pacific dispatcher in Omaha pulled up the dashboard. It loaded in 0.3 seconds. He blinked, refreshed, and called Lena: “What did you do?”
The nighttime indexing job that used to take four hours? The Aftermath
The old 32-bit Standard server crashed when tempdb hit 1.7GB. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise on 64-bit addressed terabytes of RAM. Lena watched Performance Monitor as the buffer pool grew to 28GB. Every join, every hash match, every sort happened in memory.
On go-live morning, the Union Pacific dispatcher in Omaha pulled up the dashboard. It loaded in 0.3 seconds. He blinked, refreshed, and called Lena: “What did you do?” sql server 2005 enterprise
The nighttime indexing job that used to take four hours? The Aftermath The old 32-bit Standard server crashed when tempdb hit 1
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