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See how Resource Governor can help you 'in action' in managing SQL Server resources?

Published 8 February 8 2:11 AM | SSQA.net

As you may be aware about new features within SQL Server 2008, one of the them is Resource Governor which is a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource consumption. It will enable you to specify limits on the amount of...

Filed under: application, sql server, management, blogs, security, query, 2008, resource governor

SQL Server Performance - what it takes for a newbie DBA in resolving performance issues?

Published 5 February 8 2:57 AM | SSQA.net

SQL Server Performance Tuning, sounds familiar on a DBA perspective and though it sounds like an easy words but when you start analyzing the problem it is far deeper inside. When you refer to the web resources such as forums/newsgroups then a common question...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, blocking, security, query, best practice, index plan, sql server central, newsgroups, forums

Performance - check whether it is affecting application or system, don't blame SQL Server alone

Published 3 September 7 9:42 AM | SSQA.net

Its a general assumption that whenever performance is degraded, the finger will be pointed to SQL Server, pretty easy eh!? If you look at any of the SQL Server related forums then 3 in 10 questions asks same question and nothing but shove blame on SQL...

Filed under: application, sql server, performance, blocking, security, query, table, wait, queue, high cpu, oltp

Unused indexes on a database, its good and bad

Published 27 July 7 8:51 AM | SSQA.net

You may be aware that the indexes on a SQL Server database take up space, so in case of unused indexes its obvious that they waste storage. It is easy to find the indexes using SP_HELPINDEX statement against a table, so to identify the unused indexes...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, security, query, unused indexes

Get statistics on Query plan optimizer execution

Published 11 May 7 4:48 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

As you might know PERFMON (SYSMON) and DMVs in SQL 2005 are very handy to know internal resource information about the SQL Server engine. So you might be thinking what might be the cause of this poor performance when you have a simple query to run and...

Filed under: sql server, stats, security, query, optimization, perfmance, reporting