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SQL Server 2005 Scalability and Performance - recommended limit on number of instances on a clustered environment?
04 April 08 02:48 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   

This is a very tricky question and hard to stick to 1 or few solutions as answer, it depends! Overall the say is if there isn’t any resource contention (from your pre-installation testing & analysis) and there is enough of each resource to go around, Read More...

Filed under: sql server, memory, clustered, i/o, best practice, resources, monitoring, maintenance plan, performance monitoring, configuration, contention

SQL Server Memory - what's your method on Configuration and Troubleshooting Issues
01 April 08 02:49 AM | SQL Master | 5 Comments   

Memory - an important aspect of system performance within a RDBMS platform, not specific to a database product or application. Coming to Microsoft related products such as Windows Server and SQL Server so on, various resources available on web such as Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, cache, memory, troubleshoot, raid, hardware, best practice, disk space, monitoring, system, baseline, configuration

What's your practice on Disk Defragmentation methods - specific to data file and indexes drives?
26 March 08 01:01 AM | SQL Master | 5 Comments   

Fragmentation is dearest friend of database when you need to deal with Performance, so by using the DBCC statements and other methods here you can deal the database level fragmentation, what about the physical level fragmentation? So what is the best Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dbcc, object, best practice, defrag, showcontig, blogs, disk space, monitoring, diskkeeper, file

SQL Server 2005: Clustering FAQ is Active/Active a load balancing solution?
29 February 08 03:04 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   

Another FAQ within newsgroups & forums that will SQL Server Clustering supports load balancing? It is quite common for a newbie to say and look at Clustering configuration such as Active-Active where you have n+1 nodes as a serving instances, the Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, clustered, best practice, clustering, blogs, monitoring, environment, benchmarking, san

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition - make data available while creating indexes on large tables!
25 January 08 02:41 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   

Though it is not a best practice to perform a CREATE INDEX on large tables during the online hours where you have number of users accessing the metadata of SQL Server database. Within SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition you can perform ONLINE indexes operation, Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, cache, indexes, tsql, users, best practice, backups, monitoring, operating system, creation, create, online, busy

Is RAID5 better for performance when SQL Server Clustering and SAN is involved?
22 January 08 11:28 PM | SQL Master | 8 Comments   

One of the recent usergroup meeting brought an interesting question that "what type of hardware I need for a RAID-5 Shared Array for SQL Server Cluster"? By default RAID5 hardware controller is best to hold as not to go with software RAID5 as it will Read More...

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SQL server Temporary Tables, Table Variables and Recompiles - interesting scenario
17 January 08 01:23 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

Usage of Temporary tables or variables is a common scenario in SQL Server world, since SQL Server 2005 usage of TEMPDB references to the blog posts here: http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/04/05/sql-server-index-optimization-best-practices.aspx Read More...

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SQL Server 2005: Deny Server-Level Dynamic Management Views to public group
21 December 07 06:47 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

As you are aware DMV - Dynamic management views are very good to provide server-level information and some of them with detailed information on the execution environment of the database engine. Just to introduce about DMVs, there are two types of dynamic Read More...

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SQL Server performance monitoring requirement and specifications, heard about baseline and benchmarking?
19 December 07 05:06 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   

How do you define the terms "Performance Monitoring"? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes' for all the Read More...

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