How many NUMA nodes should I have if I have lots of RAM and just a few cores?

There are some systems out there which have a lot of RAM, but only a few processors and these machines may need a non-standard NUMA configuration in order to be properly setup. For this example, let’s assume that we have a physical server with 512 Gigs of RAM and two physical NUMA nodes (and two…

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SQL Server on Linux?!?!?!

In case you missed the announcement today, Microsoft SQL Server is going to be running on Linux soonish (mid 2017). This is some pretty big and interesting news. The first thing to keep in mind is that this isn’t wholly unprecedented. This will be the second time that Microsoft SQL Server has run on an…

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