February 2012 Blog Posts

Why Use Big Endian For Compressed Integers?

Written on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: Compression

What's the idea behind using big endian for storing integers when using compression?

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Written on Monday, February 20, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Misc

Should you worry about running out of bigint values? Probably not.

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Written on Friday, February 17, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Development: .NET, Development: Amazon Web Services

How to use LINQPad for easy prototyping of AWS SDK code.

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Written on Monday, February 13, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Computer Science, Electronics

How to create a 4-to-1 multiplexer using logic gates.

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Written on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF, SQL Server: Compression

Announcing row compression support for OrcaMDF.

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Written on Monday, February 06, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Computer Science, Electronics

How does a computer add numbers using logic gates?

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