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SQL Server latch waits - index contention & performance issues how DMVs can help you to get information?
17 April 08 03:06 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
What kind of performance issues you see on day-to-day basis within your environment? The following elements are important factors that can add fuel to the fire (problem): Faulty hardware • Hardware that is not configured correctly • Firmware settings Read More...
Whats the best way to setup memory on a four-node cluster?
06 September 07 02:42 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
Though it is more to do with SQL Storage kind of question, I have just dragged into Performance tuning section for the sake of large installation you talk with clustering. For the sake of discussion it seems better to plan ahead for the failing instances Read More...
How to Analyze the PERFMON (SYSMON) data?
20 August 07 11:26 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
As you may aware the PERFMON (SYSMON) utility provides much information to analyze on the systems resource usage, I support and suggest to make use of this tool as much as you can with a default templates within our environment. You may be aware the data Read More...
sys.dm_os_schedulers - useful to find on whether your SQL Server engine is weakening!
17 August 07 06:04 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any Read More...
DMVs to provide state of TEMPDB during a performance tuning analysis
14 August 07 06:55 AM | SQL Master | 5 Comments   
TEMPDB - though the name sounds like temporary database, it most important for any user database! Coming to performance tuning exercise or analysis you would go through Task Manager initially to see how system's memory & processor are coping up. Though Read More...