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12 May 2009 16:44

Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server whitepaper

This paper documents performance for aligned and nonaligned storage and why nonaligned partitions can negatively impact I/O performance; it explains disk partition alignment for storage configured on Windows Server 2003, including analysis, diagnosis...
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02 July 2008 13:08

Enabling Hyper-V on Dell XPS Laptop

Now that Hyper-V is RTM (download update here ) I figured I'd take the plunge and dual boot my laptop by installing a Windows 2008 x64 partition. All went well and I installed the Hyper-V role and the RTM update. When it came to starting up a VM however...
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