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Why don't SQL Server queries use more than 7MB/sec of disk I/O

I have an SSD that, using IOmeter test, shows performance over 200MB/s. However when I run any SQL query from local machine the windows resource monitor never shows disk IO above 7MB/sec. This holds ...
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SQL Server recommended MAXDOP settings for NUMA

I have an OLTP SQL Database running on SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition that may be fairly busy (5000 batches/sec) in next couple of months after going live production. Looking into server configuration ...
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Required hardware to build a development environment in Sql Server

We have a bunch of applications that depends on about 10 different databases servers (all sql server) in our network. We are looking to build a development environment where we could have a mirror of ...
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What are the most compelling reasons to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012?

We currently have 2 SQL Server 2005 Enterprise machines in a mirrored environment running on Dell R815 servers. These machines consist of: Four AMD Opteron 6176 Processors (12 cores at 2.3Ghz), for ...