server

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Don't include profiler trace to begin with, as the server is already maxed out for CPU and you might skew the results or make the situation worse, especially as going into the problem you don't actually know what the problem is related to

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  1. noun One who serves food and drink.
  2. noun Something, such as a tray, that is used in serving food and drink.
  3. noun An altar server.

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  • If the server is a search or index server, you'll need at least 25\% of your total content storage available for the indexes. —  SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications
  • Don't include profiler trace to begin with, as the server is already maxed out for CPU and you might skew the results or make the situation worse, especially as going into the problem you don't actually know what the problem is related to —  MSDN Blogs
  • They want to store only encrypted data on the server, send only encrypted queries to the server (that the server can't even decrypt), yet they expect that the server will be able to send them back results. —  doggdot.us
  • As soon as the server is available, a qualified server admin connects to it via a chain of servers in various countries with the help of SSH on the new server. —  Schneier on Security
  • Basically, any hard drive you connect to the server is added to the pool of available storage, and you don't need to deal with drive letters or other disk management arcana. —  Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
 

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  1. from Middle English server; from serve + -er.
 

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