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This session will cover:
We’ll then look at some of the benefits NUMA brings us and how we sometimes need to adapt our monitoring
for the NUMA world.
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The NUMA internals of SQL Server 2012

Most servers we deploy today use a NUMA rather than an SMP mainboard architecture and while we might conceptually understand what that means we often don’t appreciate the subtle changes to how Windows and SQLOS work when they run on a NUMA architecture server. To make things even more interesting, we can deploy Soft-NUMA ourselves to request some of the behaviour changes ourselves.

This session will cover:

We’ll then look at some of the benefits NUMA brings us and how we sometimes need to adapt our monitoring
for the NUMA world.

Gavin Payne

Gavin is a Microsoft Certified Architect, Microsoft Certified Master and a senior consultant for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner, where he architects, implements and troubleshoots mission critical SQL Server environments.

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