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SQL Server 2008 is on full-fledge now and I haven't had a chance to look at Analysis Services part of it, recently had an opportunity to go through to convene a proof of concept project at work place. As the documentation refers this version of Analysis Services, special emphasis was taken to improve the performance in the execution of MDX ...

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 ...

You may be aware that or seen within your Database platform about slower disk performance than expect having multiple disks in Windows Server 2003 environment when you use a hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or a software-based RAID. This could be due to one of the reasons such as starting location of partition is ...

In general it is not a best practice to perform SHRINK database operation on a production server, atleast regularly! Sometimes it may be compulsory to keep them sized in order to ensure the disk storage is not compromised for any sudden changes to databases ETL processes, coming to the point by design the DBCC SHRINKFILE operation is a ...

Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes occur in a database the changes are formed as transactions that are held in buffer pool ...

What kind of performance issues you see on day-to-day basis within your environment? The following elements are important factors that can add fuel to the fire (problem): Faulty hardware • Hardware that is not configured correctly • Firmware settings • Filter ...

This is a very tricky question and hard to stick to 1 or few solutions as answer, it depends! Overall the say is if  there isn’t any resource contention (from your pre-installation testing & analysis) and there is enough of each resource to go around, then there is usually no reason to set any restrictions on the server ...

Configuration of server such as disk and memory is an important factor for SQL Server Performance, there is all about questions within newsgroups and forums that how do I setup the disk layout for a SQL Server database (say, 2005 version).  Not only this there will be more questions asked related to general guidelines or any other setup ...

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 MSDN blogs, Books Online and articles, frequently viewed concept for memory is such as ...

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 way forward to fix the data file fragmentation in SQL Server, say when you have much of ...