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SQL Server Memory - what's your method on Configuration and Troubleshooting Issues

Published 1 April 8 4:49 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, memory, cache, disk space, troubleshoot, system, best practice, raid, hardware, monitoring, configuration, baseline

What's your practice on Disk Defragmentation methods - specific to data file and indexes drives?

Published 26 March 8 3:1 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, dbcc, disk space, object, file, best practice, monitoring, showcontig, defrag, diskkeeper

Warning: Autogrow of file 'DB File Name' in database 'DB Name' took <number> milliseconds. Consider using ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH for this file.

Published 21 February 8 6:22 AM | SSQA.net

The message on subject is self-explanatory where your disk subsystem is referring to SQL Server that it is unable to cope up the demand. Having AUTOGROW option enabled on a SQL Server database is a common setup that allows SQL Server automatically expands...

Filed under: sql server, performance, databases, dba, disk space, error log, monitoring, configuration, alter database, auto grow

How SQL Server manages when a database is created in terms of I/O and disk usage?

Published 29 January 8 5:46 AM | SSQA.net

One of the best features you have in the SQL Server is to create database data file (additional) on fly without having a slow performance affect on existing connections. But think about how SQL Server manages to use server threads for the data file that...

Filed under: sql server, performance, management, indexes, windows, i/o, sysmon, disk space, usage, resource, perflib, worker threads, task manager

CLR stored procedure to get disk space information

Published 9 January 8 1:36 PM | SSQA.net

Tara Kizer's blog on GetDiskSpace using CLR procedure helped me recently, thought I could share with my community....( read more ) Read More...

Filed under: sql server, blogs, mvp, disk space, external

Error - There is not enough disk space on the destination disk, during a SQL Server failover cluster installation

Published 4 January 8 2:51 AM | SSQA.net

Had an interesting problem on one of the SANs that will be used to setup a failover clustering installation. The issue error "'There is not enough disk space on the destination disk for the current SQL server data files" and when I have...

Filed under: sql server, cluster, disk space, hardware, administrator, failover, errorr, installallation, not enough storage

WRITELOG wait types - what your SQL Server is saying?

Published 12 October 7 7:41 AM | SSQA.net

Whenever the SQL Server is struggling to write the transactions to the disk, you would observe WRITELOG wait type within SP_WHO2 results. So when you observer such wait types then you should be worried on the disks performance, either you plan for shrinking...

Filed under: sql server, performance, transaction log, disk space, tablesample, writelog, wait type

Disk Space Requirements for Index DDL Operations

Published 28 September 7 8:38 AM | SSQA.net

Are you watching your disk space during the indexes operations where these database objects are stored? Recently I was stumped on a database that is only 5GB had reindexing process failure due to 10% of disk free space was available. For your information...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, dba, optimization, disk space, best practice, hardware, disks, sorting, reindexing

FIX: SQL Server 2005 does not reclaim the disk space that is allocated to the temporary table if the stored procedure is stopped

Published 12 September 7 12:35 PM | SSQA.net

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: SQL Server 2005 does not reclaim the disk space that is allocated to the...

Filed under: sql server, kba, disk space, stored procedure, monitoring, temp, temporary

FULLTEXT catalogs and BACKUP - behaviour in SQL Server 2005

Published 2 August 7 9:17 AM | SSQA.net

There should be no special consideration to perform BACKUP activities within your SQL Server environment. But if you are using FTS with full-text indexes/catalogs then you should be concerned about point-in time recoverability with the backups. You may...

Filed under: performance, backup, optimization, disk space, full-text

Does DBCC SHRINKFILE consumes operating system resources such as memory, CPU usage etc.?

Published 25 July 7 4:30 AM | SSQA.net

Yes it does! Until yesterday even I was under impression that it will not use or cause any issues to the server. But think about performing the SHRINK operation of transaction log & database files on regular basis, say within a scheduled job or ongoing...

Filed under: sql server, memory, database, shrink, disk space, cpu

SQL 2005 snapshot backups and disk space monitoring

Published 13 June 7 5:20 AM | SSQA.net

When using SNAPSHOT backups in SQL Server there are few things you need to consider, that included monitoring the disk space usage where the database backups & snapshot files are stored. BOL confirms about SNAPSHOT backups as: The underlying backup...

Filed under: sql server, backup, snapshot, disk space