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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...

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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...

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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...

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WRITELOG wait types - what your SQL Server is saying?
12 October 07 05:41 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

Whenever the SQL Server is struggling to write the transactions to the disk, you would observe WRITELOG wait type within SP_WHO2 results. So when you observer such wait types then you should be worried on the disks performance, either you plan for shrinking Read More...

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Disk Space Requirements for Index DDL Operations
28 September 07 06:38 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   

Are you watching your disk space during the indexes operations where these database objects are stored? Recently I was stumped on a database that is only 5GB had reindexing process failure due to 10% of disk free space was available. For your information Read More...

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