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SQL Server - PERFMON counters and Resource Governor - what you can do in a performance issue situation?
17 November 08 12:41 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
PERFMON and Resource Governor - two great tools in hand for a DBA to monitor/resolve the performance problems, agreee! Back in olden days you may remember about SQLDiag and PSSDiag, the utility used as a general purpose diagnostics collection utility Read More...
Quick tips & tricks on fine tuning performance problem on a SQL Server instance.
06 October 08 02:51 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
Few months ago I had an excellent opportunity to learn and share the knowledge within SQL Server performance tuning, Tech-Ed Online talks [remember Tech-ed Online Panel: Leveraging ... ]. Same in the series Amit Bansal, SQL Server MVP from India and myself Read More...
SQL Server Performance - consideration on unique index or filtered index.
25 September 08 12:46 AM | satyaskj | 2 Comments   
It is no doubt that when a database consists ' well-designed ' indexes can reduce disk I/O operations and consume fewer system resources therefore improving query performance. You might be wondering I'm going back to basics for indexes! So when the database Read More...
Performance Monitoring using SQL Server Management Studio - Power of Management Data Warehouse
16 September 08 01:01 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
How many tools do you (need/use0 to monitor the performance of your SQL Server instance(s)? Well, I'm not asking any count on the x number of tools you require to monitor the SQL Server instances within your environment, and Performance Tuning using Management Read More...
SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities
09 June 08 05:50 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   
As a DBA, you probably often find yourself striving or struggling to improve the performance of SQL Server instance queries (might be smaller or complex ones). By default in order to get further analysis on the system's performance you need to perform Read More...
SQL Server Performance issues with Fragmentation and heavy usage of TEMPDB?
15 May 08 01:59 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
Whenever a performance issue occurs on the SQL Server database best option for diagnosing and troubleshooting common problems by using publicly available tools such as Profiler, System Monitor (Perfmon), and Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server Read More...
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...
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...
SQL Server Clustering - what is the difference between Active/Passive and Active/Active Clustering, which is good for better performance?
18 March 08 02:20 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
First part of question is a pure newbie FAQ to know about, and the simple answer would be it is one of the Clustering type you can adopt within your SQL Server environment. To cover on newbie aspect both Active/Passive & Active/Active configuration Read More...
SQL Server 2005 PERFMON counter spikes in Transactions/sec and Buffer Cache Hit ratio, what does it say?
14 March 08 02:16 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
Recently I was involved in one of the Performance Audit exercise at a client's place where they complain about Server CPU is always HIGH and what they have observed is even the physical disk where TEMPDB is located has been used extensively, as they can Read More...
SQL Server error: messages are appearing when the working set of SQL Server 2005 process reaches 50 percent of the memory that is committed to the process.
07 March 08 03:54 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
Have you seen the above message within the SQL Server error logs? If not then no need to worry and make sure to continue your performance monitoring tasks. So when to be concerned! It is evident that SQL Server 2005 component handles memory differently Read More...
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...
Warning: Autogrow of file 'DB File Name' in database 'DB Name' took <number> milliseconds. Consider using ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH for this file.
21 February 08 05:22 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
The message on subject is self-explanatory where your disk subsystem is referring to SQL Server that it is unable to cope up the demand. Having AUTOGROW option enabled on a SQL Server database is a common setup that allows SQL Server automatically expands Read More...
SQL Server Performance - what it takes for a newbie DBA in resolving performance issues?
05 February 08 01:57 AM | SQL Master | 6 Comments   
SQL Server Performance Tuning, sounds familiar on a DBA perspective and though it sounds like an easy words but when you start analyzing the problem it is far deeper inside. When you refer to the web resources such as forums/newsgroups then a common question Read More...
SQL Server 2005 DMV - how it can help to consider whether index is useful or not?
04 February 08 07:06 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   
When it comes to performance, for a DBA indexes are the first one to come to mind in order to fine tune the tasks on the database. In this series we have already covered this huge topic of indexing and how best you can make use of Dynamic Management Views Read More...
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