Various changes from automatic soft NUMA to CMemThread partitioning have muddied the water
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Back in June, Bob Dorr gave you the thinking behind why SQL Server 2016
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Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality
My recent posts https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/06/03/sql-2016-it-just-runs-faster-column-store-uses-vector-instructions-sseavx/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/06/03/sql-2016-it-just-runs-faster-bulk-insert-uses-vector-instructions-sseavx/ have generated discussions about the SSE and AVX support
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I have found the term DTC is used in many ways so for the
The AlwaysOn log transport uses a SQL Broker based design to send and receive
SQL Server 2016 introduces two distinct changes in the AlwaysOn transport, compression design.  
SQL Server 2016  ‘It Just Runs Faster’   A bold statement that any SQL