The disks and the disk subsystem, which includes the controllers and connectors and management software, are one of the single slowest parts of any computing system. Over the years, memory has become faster and faster. The same can be said of CPUs. But disks, except for some of the radical improvements we’ve seen recently with technologies such as solid-state disks (SSDs), have not changed that much; disks are still one of the slowest parts of most systems. This means you’re going to want to be able to monitor your disks to understand their behavior. In ...
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Grant FritcheySQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuninghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3888-2_33. Disk Performance Analysis
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