Topic:  NEC Enterprise Server Platform Technologies
Date:  Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:30pm
Speaker:  Michael Nixon
Location:  Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter

NEC’s Itanium-based enterprise server offering (Express5800/1320Xf) scales to 8 cells (32 sockets, 64 cores and 1 TB of RAM) and represents the first platform certified by Microsoft to support “Dynamic Hardware Partitioning” under MS Windows Server 2008, as well as “Dynamic Reconfigure” certification under MS SQL Server 2008.  This mainframe-like feature combination facilitates a nearly always-on operation for your business critical SQL operations. Also NEC’s dynamic hardware partitioning enables hot-addition and hot-replacement of CPU, memory, and I/O resources with no downtime required.  For SQL database applications that require the RAS capabilities of Intel Itanium-2 processors, along with the single server high-uptime availability of NEC’s Dynamic Partitioning capability, the NEC Express5800/1320Xf is in a Wintel server in a league of its own.
 
During the course of this presentation, Michael will play a video clip demonstrating this Dynamic Partitioning technology in action.
 
In addition to the mainframe class NEC Express5800/1320xf, NEC also offers a high performance midrange x86 product based on new 6-core Intel Xeon® processors. NEC’s Express5800/1160A enterprise server, aka NEC’s Monster Xeon Server, scales to 16 sockets, 96 cores, and 1 TB of RAM.  This platform from NEC was the first to establish world record TCP-E SQL database benchmark performance results that reached 1,400 transaction per second (November of 2008). NEC’s Monster Xeon Server platform supplies the maximum number of execution cores that can be exploited by SQL Server 2008 today (64 cores). NEC’s A1160 delivers excellent bang-for-the-buck performance when the advanced RAS capabilities of the Itanium-based Dynamic Partitioning platform are not required by the functional specifications of the database environment.
 
Speaker Bio:
Michael Nixon is Director of midrange and high-end enterprise SQL server platform product groups at NEC Corporation of America. He is responsible for leading and developing technical, product, and go-to-market business strategies and programs for NEC Enterprise Servers. Mr. Nixon’s background spans both enterprise servers – Windows and UNIX – and enterprise storage. Mr. Nixon holds Electronic Engineering and MBA degrees.

Our “SQL Track” on this evening will be presented by Rodney Landrum.

Topic: Bulk Loading SQL in Space (disk space).

This session will demonstrate the numerous ways to quickly and efficiently import and export large data volumes to SQL Server. Using BCP, BULK INSERT, OPENROWSET and third party tools, you will learn how to “minimally” log transactions to avoid run away log file growth as well as the best method to backup and restore large databases, 300GB or more. We will see how much we can fill a database in the course of the hour and discuss why we (or your business) would want to store so much data in the first place.

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: 26 Dec, 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Pensacola SQL By: Karla Remail.