This excerpt from the upcoming book, SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action, introduces the role of service-level agreements (SLAs) as part of a DBA's overall strategy to maintaining reliable ...

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Modern AI is about a lot more than chatbots, as shown by Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 pivot to using its stable of large and small language models to power autonomous agents. Much of its focus was on using ...

As solid state drives (SSDs) are deployed in data centers in both hybrid HDD/SSD and all flash arrays (AFAs), it is becoming increasingly important to understand what metrics are relevant to assess ...