October 2012 - Posts

• Supermicro motherboards and systems

  I used to buy SuperMicro exclusively for my own lab. SuperMicro always had a deep lineup of motherboards with almost every conceivable variation. In particular, they had the maximum memory and IO configuration that is desired for database servers. But Read More... Posted Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:47 PM by jchang | 2 Comments

• Server Systems for SQL Server 2012 per core licensing

  Until recently, the SQL Server Enterprise Edition per processor (socket) licensing model resulted in only 2 or 3 server system configurations being the preferred choice. Determine the number of sockets: 2, 4 or 8. Then select the processor with the most Read More... Posted Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:40 PM by jchang | 6 Comments