ohmigosh.
a colleague just forwarded an email of mine about Windows registry setting QueueFullWaitIoPercentage. i had hit a wall trying to investigate/research it but passed it on to some colleagues in a #sqlserver storage investigation.
i don't think we know anything new yet.
email was from October 25. i was excited to find QueueFullWaitIoPercentage, thinking it may be a missing piece in some investiations.
until 5 minutes ago, i had completely forgotten registry setting QueueFullWaitIoPercentage exists.
i should probably finish creating this #sqlserver disk io rampup test. with long enough disk queues to saturate queue depth, i can test different QueueFullWaitIoPercentage values and observe effects on disk latency. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-…
searching for "SCSISTAT_QUEUE_FULL pvscsi" and "SRB_STATUS_BUSY pvscsi" only yielded interesting results from sites other people have classified as malware so...
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just like that, i'm probably done thinking about scalabilty strategies for #sqlserver, and back to investigating latch timeouts on very busy systems.
here's the thing. the number of mdmp files for a given large-memory system can be pretty small, especially if an Availability Group is involved.
while a dump is in progress, #sqlserver memory must remain in a constant consistant state. the more memory, the longer the dump may take (there are other un-enumerated factors).
but, Availability Group lease timeout can only be set as high as 100 seconds currently.
484 #sqlserver batch mode on rowstore queries. DOP 8. run consecutively by a single session. each query is a fullscan of a different single table, grouping by a CASE statement on a non-indexed INT/BIGINT/NUMERIC data type column. producing one or two result rows of 1 column each.
based on observation of the first experiment with these queries, in which the queries were ordered alphabetically by the name of the only table in the FROM, i reordered the queries based on decreasing pages:rows ratio. that gives the evident decreasing pages/sec trend :-)
a closeup of the first 10 minutes shows the considerable variation even though the downward trend is evident.
wow
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Oracle in Talks to Buy Cerner
An agreement, which could potentially be worth $30 billion, would rank as biggest ever for software giant
2021 December 16 wsj.com/articles/oracl…
i don't know i've ever heard a story about Oracle in talks to buy a company with an ending other than Oracle *buying* that company.
oh. i forgot about the TikTok debacle, mentioned by Financial TImes here.
so that's *one* story about Oracle not buying.
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Oracle nears deal to buy health IT company Cerner for $30bn
2021 December 16 ft.com/content/9bf806…
i'll nitpick two details, though :-)
the 512k upper bound for disk IO size isn't properly a #sqlserver limit, although it *is* the limit on most systems. it's the upper bound of the disk adapter.
some disk adapters - most fibre channel HBAs and some others, too - allow configuration of the maximum disk transfer size, and can be set higher than 512kb.
indubitably
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