OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL ...

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As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

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I have a cloud hosted (Rackspace) Windows server running SQL 2008 R2 Express, which is supposedly limited to using 1 GB of RAM. Performance has not been what we wanted, so we had Rackspace deploy for ...