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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 2005 (onwards). What to detect? Use SYSMON to detect excessive compiles ...

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 only difference between Active-Passive configuration is having 2(+n) active nodes at a ...

When it comes to monitor the query performance whether it is TSQL or MDX, the process is similar. You need to have a better understanding on how queries are executed (architecture), what tools are available for monitoring and best practices to improve performance. So similar to Relational database engine, Analysis Services engine architecture ...

If it is a first time you are deploying the SQL Server 2005 on a SAN, then there are few things you need to be considered that will be raised by installations that are either deploying SQL Server for the first time or are upgrading to SAN from direct attach storage.   The important factors such as virtualization of physical disks, RAID ...

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 be single-point-of-failure. When you talk about RAID5 on hardware then by default you'll need an ...

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, ...

This may be last post in Performance Tuning & Security blog section here for this year!! Most of this year in the forums & newsgroups I have seen a common question asking about memory configuration within SQL Server 2005. As you may be aware that SQL Server 2005 (onwards) the memory allocation is set to DYNAMIC, that means the ...

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 questions above, in general getting know more about performance monitoring methods is not ...