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SQL Server 2005 Scalability and Performance - recommended limit on number of instances on a clustered environment?

Published 4 April 8 4:48 AM | SSQA.net

This is a very tricky question and hard to stick to 1 or few solutions as answer, it depends! Overall the say is if there isn’t any resource contention (from your pre-installation testing & analysis) and there is enough of each resource to go around...

Filed under: sql server, memory, maintenance plan, i/o, clustered, best practice, monitoring, resources, configuration, performance monitoring, contention

If MAX WORKER THREADS increased from 255 to 500 what will be the usage or availability of system resources on the server?

Published 15 November 7 9:41 AM | SSQA.net

Continuing on the MAX WORKER THREADS topic from ThisBlog I have been asked about method of calculating the amount of system resources that will be used when the setting is increased to 500 from 255 (default). Well, as one of the best practices you must...

Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, server, tuning, dbcc, system, best practice, testing, resources, sqlperf, max worker threads