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Determining the required capacity of an I/O subsystem before deploying the database
17 September 07 06:49 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   

It is a good practice to determine the required capacity for a database application before it is deployed on the Production environment. As it speaks the I/O system is "most" important to the performance of SQL Server, in the event of any performance Read More...

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Identify and troubleshoot slow running queries in SQL Server
25 May 07 04:53 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   

Achieving the performance for slow running queries is not a rocket science to understand. The database performance is dependant on implementing optimum database design with sensible hardware-based configuration and capacity planning. So how you can identify Read More...

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Battery backup write cache for controllers - should it be disabled?
22 May 07 08:03 AM | SQL Master | 0 Comments   

You might be aware that now a days many high-end and high-spec disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. In general this cache is supported by a battery-power backup facility, which is necessary Read More...

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