SQL University: Parallelism Week - Introduction

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Welcome to Parallelism Week at SQL University . My name is Adam Machanic, and I'm your professor. Imagine having 8 brains, or 16, or 32. Imagine being able to break up complex thoughts and distribute them across your many brains, so that you could solve problems faster. Now quit imagining that, because you're human and you're stuck with only one brain, and you only get access to the entire thing if you're lucky enough to have avoided abusing too many recreational drugs. For your database server,...(read more)

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