This post is part 2 of the Powershell for DBA – Working with INI Files and describes a simple method and then a more complex method to exclude databases from subsequent processing within a Powershell script.
It’s quite interesting that Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 release has a number of In Memory performance optimisation features. The clock speeds of CPUs have not significantly increased over the last few years but memory has become relativity cheap and the 64 bit Windows platforms now provide substantial scope to run high memory footprints.
The Cloud IaaS market is constantly on the move so an IaaS Provider’s positioning can change within a short period of time.
According to the Gartner Group, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still way ahead of all competitors and sits in the sweet spot of Magic Quadrant.