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SQL Server 2005 and Disk drive allocation unit size to 64K - any benefit or performance?

Published 28 April 8 3:1 AM | SSQA.net

You may be aware that or seen within your Database platform about slower disk performance than expect having multiple disks in Windows Server 2003 environment when you use a hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or a software-based...

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SQL Server databases - checkpoint, cache and I/O request - what you need to know?

Published 22 April 8 1:51 PM | SSQA.net

Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes...

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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...

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