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64 bit computing configuration with SQL Server 2005 - what you can take-on?

Published 23 April 8 6:31 PM | SSQA.net

It has been a while in posting X64 related information here, so that comes now about configuration gotchas you may need, for a starter though. X64 computing platforms have become common installations now a days due to the hardware reduced costing and...

Filed under: application, sql server, performance, x64, hardware, computing, sap, compatability, 64-bit

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, san, best practice, hardware, disks, monitoring, benchmarking, scsi

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

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

NTFS Cluster size - if changing the default cluster size on the disk is a good idea or not?

Published 16 October 7 7:18 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, technet, disk, partition, testing, hardware, lun, clustersize

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

"Error 9003: The LSN(42:132:1) passed to log scan in database '<DBName>' is invalid

Published 17 September 7 4:44 AM | SSQA.net

Got a distressed call from one of the database operators stating the error on the subject, instantly I suspect that the hardware of that server is not doing well. As the error ""Error 9003: The LSN(42:132:1) passed to log scan in database '<DBName>'...

Filed under: sql server, error, error log, hardware, log file, detach, attach, data files, 9003, mdf

Dust out few tasks to gain transactional replication performance in SQL 2005

Published 16 August 7 4:20 AM | SSQA.net

Coming to the basics of Transactional Replication, that starts with a simple snapshot of publication database data. Similar to the name the process is carried upon the fashion of transactions and subsequent data changes and schema modifications made at...

Filed under: sql server, performance, integration, tuning, ssas, ssms, replication, transactional, hardware

DMVs to provide state of TEMPDB during a performance tuning analysis

Published 14 August 7 8:55 AM | SSQA.net

TEMPDB - though the name sounds like temporary database, it most important for any user database! Coming to performance tuning exercise or analysis you would go through Task Manager initially to see how system's memory & processor are coping up...

Filed under: sql server, performance, analysis, index, rebuild, tempdb, hardware

32bit vs 64 bit what other factors you need to consider?

Published 14 August 7 8:16 AM | SSQA.net

Is 64 bit means more memory? Yes, to be precise. Microsoft has been investing heavily on X64 bit and within couple of years there will be no more development on 32-bit applications, as per the recent road map. So within 32-bit application it is one of...

Filed under: sql server, performance, memory, server, windows, x64, system, hardware, 32 bit, 64 bit

Error: Could not find row in sysindexes for database. 8966, 823 and 602

Published 14 August 7 4:35 AM | SSQA.net

Long ago, not long ago.... No doubt that many of you might have gone through the error above within your SQL environment, also I see many forum posts out there to resolve the issue. The bottom line of this issue is Hardware and no other issue can contribute...

Filed under: sql server, performance, database, dbcc, checkdb, table, hardware, corrupted, sysindexes, 8966, 823, page

Smaller disks <> more spindles which one is better for performance?

Published 10 August 7 4:53 AM | SSQA.net

I have gone through a question within the forums asking "smaller disks or more spindles" which is better for performance. The simple answer is more disks to handle the data growth and also mostly depends upon the number of transactons that are...

Filed under: sql server, performance, security, hardware, disks, spindle

How to gain Disk related performance with few simple steps

Published 30 July 7 9:24 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, microsoft, disk, IO, testing, raid, hardware, tool