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Tom Davidson

Tom Davidson is a program manager for Microsoft's SQL Server development organization. As a SQL Server architecture expert and part of the Customer Advisory Team, he works with customers to improve their SQL Server–based applications' performance. He frequently writes and speaks about SQL Server performance.
Email: thomasda@microsoft.com

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64-Bit Vs. 32-Bit Memory Management

By Prakash Sundaresan, 12/01/2004

Learn about memory-utilization differences between 64-bit and 32-bit SQL Server.

Minding Memory

By Prakash Sundaresan, 08/24/2004

Understanding how SQL Server uses memory is an essential step in performance tuning. Members of Microsoft’s SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team show you how they find ...

Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox

By Tom Davidson, 12/23/2003

Microsoft's SQL Server Customer Advisory Team uses a repeatable methodology involving waits and queues to diagnose and solve customer performance problems. In this article, the ...

Diagnosing Network Problems

By Tom Davidson, 12/23/2003

Diagnosing network problems is an important part of any performance-tuning process. This sidebar describes how to use the NETWORKIO wait type to determine whether network problems ...



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