Archive for August, 2010

SQL2008 R2 DCE on a 96 core Unisys ES7000 server with DSI Solid State storage: Bulk Inserting 1 Terabyte within 10 minutes (2010-8-23)

Category: SQL 2008 R2, Storage: SAN & SSD, Windows 2008 R2 | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments

Hopefully you have seen the high-speed data loading demo live over the last 1.5 years at some SQL Server conference? I remember demoing it the first time –live- with Thomas Kejser at the European SQLPass 2009 conference during the opening keynote to show the 64+ Core support in SQL2008 R2. But for those of you […]

How to Speed Up SSIS Derived Columns Transformations (2010-8-20)

Category: Performance tip, SSIS | No Comments

Sedat Yogurtcuoglu noticed that’s it’s possible to increase the throughput of a pipeline by splitting Synchronous Transformations into Multiple Tasks in the same synchronous execution tree; we ran a series of tests with various number of Derived Column tasks and found out that it’s possible to more than double the throughput. If you want to […]

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