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Continuing on the MAX WORKER THREADS topic from ThisBlog I have been asked about method of calculating the amount of system resources that will be used when the setting is increased to 500 from 255 (default). Well, as one of the best practices you must test the implications and usage in hiking such a value that will affect the whole server ...

You may be aware that plan guides will help the optimizer to perform better and a general recommendation is to use the relevant USE PLAN query hint when the other standard query tuning options are failed. It is also necessary to test through the results you would expect are not upto the mark, when using indexing tuning wizard or by updating ...

You might have come across on the web resources that setting the disk to a 64k cluster size (8 * 8KB pages) might achieve the performance. But have you wondered will this really boost the disk performance, see in what scenario such as lots of reads and writes from the database to disk. In this case take help of SYSMON (PERFMON) for Avg. Disk ...

Within your SQL Server environment there are few simple steps you can take up in order to gain performance to a level, for instance when configuring a SQL Server that will only contain a few gigabytes (GB) of data and not sustain heavy read nor write activity, it is not as important to be concerned with the subject of disk I/O and balancing of SQL ...