SQLBits 2011

Finding the Limits

In this session, I will take simple SQL statements, the stuff you write every day, and bump up the scale until things start breaking

Having conquered the bulk API and hit 16M rows/sec, we turn our eyes to other workloads to see just how hard we can push SQL Server before it breaks. In this session, I will take simple SQL statements, the stuff you write every day, and bump up the scale until things start breaking. I will attempt to answer questions like

How fast can you read rows from SQL?

How many INSERT statements can you run per sec Is UPDATE really so bad? How does index build scale? And how fast can you build a Denali column store? Just how many IOPS can you squeeze out of a modern machine running Windows? (Give those SAN guys something to think about) How fast can you table scan from disk? (and how do you test it?)

The session will also introduce tools like WinDbg and Xperf for troubleshooting.

Thomas Kejser's previous sessions

BigData vs. Data Warehousing

: We are looking at the dawn of a new workload: BigData. In this session I will talk about what BigData is, and which BigData technologies Microsoft are working on.

DW Design With The Product Team

This talk will explain the patterns that we recommend to customers when designing data warehouses. This talk will help people learning about DW for the first time and also give insight for those who wish to learn more.

Relational Modeling for Extreme DW scale

This session is taken from lessons learned in the field on being able to scale data models to handle multi-terabytes of data. Come to this session and understand the difficulties before you encounter them.

Finding the Limits

In this session, I will take simple SQL statements, the stuff you write every day, and bump up the scale until things start breaking

Designing and Tuning high speed data loading

My Name is Thomas Keyser and I work for Microsoft in the SQLCAT team. I hold the land speed record for data loading in SQL Server so come here my talk on the options you have.

Designing High Scale OLTP systems

My Name is Thomas Keyser and I work for Microsoft in the SQLCAT team. I hold the land speed record for data loading in SQL Server. This talk focuses on lessons learned when using high end hardware and stressing it.