Writing a month long series is always a lot more work than you initially expect. You would think that I would have remembered that fact from April 2010, when I wrote my DMV a Day series… Since my memory was short, I decided to write another month long series for April, which I just finished.
Here is a day by day recap, with links to each post:
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 1 (Westmere-EP)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 2 (Westmere-EX)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 3 (AMD Opteron 6100)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 4 (AMD Bulldozer)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 5 (Hardware ID – DMVs)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 6 (Hardware ID – Built-in)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 7 (CPU-Z)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 8 (Recommended Intel Processors)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 9 (Recommended AMD Processors)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 10 (Old Intel Processor Numbering)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 11 (New Intel Processor Numbering)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 12 (AMD Processor Numbering)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 13 (Intel Turbo Boost)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 14 (Intel Tick Tock Release Strategy)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 15 (Power Plans and CPU performance)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 16 (SQL Server 2008 R2 and Hardware)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 17 (Geekbench)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 18 (AMD Turbo CORE)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 19 (RAID Controllers)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 20 (Building a Desktop Test System)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 21 (Processor Cache Size)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 22 (32-bit vs. 64-bit)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 23 (Two Socket vs. Four Socket)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 24 (TPC-E Benchmark)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 25 (DB Server Processor Selection)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26 (Laptop Processor Selection)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27 (Crystal DiskMark)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 28 (Intel Chipsets and SSDs)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 29 (Hardware Resiliency)
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 30 (RAID Level Primer)
If you liked this series, please consider buying my SQL Server Hardware book, when it finally becomes available later this month. You can also reach out to me on Twitter, where I am @GlennAlanBerry.