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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...

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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