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Quick tips & tricks on fine tuning performance problem on a SQL Server instance.
Published 6 October 8 4:51 AM | SqlServer-QA.net
Few months ago I had an excellent opportunity to learn and share the knowledge within SQL Server performance tuning, Tech-Ed Online talks [remember Tech-ed Online Panel: Leveraging ... ]. Same in the series Amit Bansal, SQL Server MVP from India and myself...
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SQL Server data and log files initialization, think multiple files, backup & restore performance!
Published 25 July 8 6:1 AM | SSQA.net
Whenever you perform a database creation, add a data or log file to database, AUTOGROW process is intiated or restore of database will trigger the file initialization if that is created afresh. In addition to this when you talk about files intialization...
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SQLKnowHow - gear up for exclusive training from professionals
Published 8 July 8 8:27 AM | SSQA.net
SQLKnowHow is the new organisation that is focused on training services based on SQL Server. In this regard they have lined up very interesting list of events in coming months, it will be a great time for the SQL Server Users in United Kingdom to grab...
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SQL Server Performance issues with Fragmentation and heavy usage of TEMPDB?
Published 15 May 8 3:59 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server - Deploying Database Mirroring and Clustering parallely on same machine, performance and failover support?
Published 8 May 8 3:42 AM | SSQA.net
When you think about high availability in SQL Server then you would think about Clustering and in addition to this within 2005 version we have Database Mirroring too that can provide automated failover support to your database server applications. By...
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SQL Server 2005 and Disk drive allocation unit size to 64K - any benefit or performance?
Published 28 April 8 3:1 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server configuration disk layout - best practices from field
Published 3 April 8 3:17 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server replication FAQ and important measures to consider when replication performance is sufferred
Published 7 February 8 9:41 AM | SSQA.net
Here we are going to highlight the majority of tasks you need to perform whenever user complains or you observe about SQL Server Replication performance is affected, adversly. For any performance tuning issues there will be other factors involved including...
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SYSMON (PERFMON) counters that will help you to resolve SQL Server Integration Services issue
Published 31 January 8 3:45 AM | SSQA.net
As you are aware that SYSMON (PERFMON) provides very useful counters to analyze the system performance or to schedule a historical growth of your system usage. From the changes (upgrade) to the Operating System and SQL Server we now have new set of SQL...
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SQL Server Analysis Services MDX Query performance monitoring - highlights
Published 29 January 8 3:27 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server Reporting Services - Do you cache popular reports for better performance?
Published 7 January 8 5:30 AM | SSQA.net
Do you cache or not? By default SQL Server cache stores the data & query plan in cache to provide better performance for your queries. Similary caching is also included in SQL Server Reporting Services where this caching can shorten the time required...
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Another Best Practices article: Identifying and Resolving MDX Query Performance Bottlenecks
Published 5 September 7 4:34 AM | SSQA.net
Best Practices are good enough to follow, but simply do not read and digest. Try to implement them within your environment to keep up the performance. Similary there are many things involved within the SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services such as MDX queries...
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Setting database compatibility to SQL 2000 on a SQL Server 2005 instance?
Published 30 August 7 5:2 AM | SSQA.net
No doubt that as compare to previous version the current SQL Server 2005 provides more new language constructs and primitives for the T-SQL language than can be utilized. Still there are many out there not entirely ready to upgrade from SQL Server 2000...
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