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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

Best way to deploy SQL Server 2005 with SAN

Published 28 January 8 2:1 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, tools, 2005, san, best practice, raid, hardware, configuration, benchmarking, downloads, iometer, deployment, sqlio

Is RAID5 better for performance when SQL Server Clustering and SAN is involved?

Published 23 January 8 12:28 AM | SSQA.net

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...

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Keep Everything Clear of the Doors - get safe online

Published 14 December 7 1:52 AM | SSQA.net

Security, whether it is for your home or systems you have to be very careful! Ed Gibson, Chief Cyber Security Advisor from Microsoft has articulated very nice article that will talk more about these aspects, we have had a brief meeting with Ed when I...

Filed under: sql server, microsoft, security, article, best practice, hardware, author, holidays

Improving Backup and Recovery RTO RPO in a SAN - think on your SQL Server environment

Published 6 December 7 12:47 PM | SSQA.net

Backup and restore practices are at the core of today's best business continuity plans. While backup and restore provides many benefits, it simultaneously presents a variety of challenges with lost data, the time it takes to restore data, and the...

Filed under: sql server, restore, high availability, backup, disk, recovery, san, best practice, hardware

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