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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

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

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