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SQL Server 2008 features and getting through CTP, RC, RTM. Are we there yet?

Published 14 May 8 3:23 AM | SSQA.net

I'm not going to shoot any questions to Microsoft about RTM release for SQL Server 2008, as it was made it clear from The Data Platform Insider blog post as: Extract: "Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, ssms, dba, dmf, best practice, new features, resource governor, policy based framework

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, msdn, backup, blogs, database, transaction log, cache, i/o, flush, monitoring, checkpointl

SQL Server 2008 TSQL enhancements - what I like?

Published 4 April 8 9:58 AM | SSQA.net

Simple, short and crisp - I would like to say about TSQL enhancements within SQL Server 2008. You may already aware about what's new and how best you can take advantage within your code, most of the Developers would agree about IntelliSense functionality...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, technet, merge, tsql, plan guide, new features, tvp, table-value

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, dbcc, disk space, object, file, best practice, monitoring, showcontig, defrag, diskkeeper

SQL Server 2005: Clustering FAQ is Active/Active a load balancing solution?

Published 29 February 8 4:4 AM | SSQA.net

Another FAQ within newsgroups & forums that will SQL Server Clustering supports load balancing? It is quite common for a newbie to say and look at Clustering configuration such as Active-Active where you have n+1 nodes as a serving instances, the...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, environment, clustered, clustering, san, best practice, monitoring, benchmarking

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

SQL Server 2008 Data Compression, what it is - how does it work?

Published 3 December 7 7:54 AM | SSQA.net

As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005...

Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, blogs, security, 2008, ctp, data capture, 2005, compress, data compression

SQL Server: How do I identify the queries that are worth tuning?

Published 16 November 7 7:2 AM | SSQA.net

Have you ever asked this question about how do I identify the queries that worth tuning? The simple answer it is neither easy or hard to obtain such information if you have managed your SQL Server by deploying industry best practices (wherever possible...

Filed under: sql server, performance, management, microsoft, blogs, technet, dmv, dba, best practice, slow query

Stored Procedures caught me with too many recomplies - way out to avoid it

Published 25 October 7 3:35 AM | SSQA.net

A common scenario in SQL Server environment that often application users complained about slow performance and same time you observe high CPU usage/spikes on the SQL Server instance, so better to follow the methods from HighCPU-whyitis blog and still...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, blogs, kba, stored procedure, high cpu, recompile, too many

High CPU issues that are specific to SQL Server 2000 installations and few with SQL 2005 too!

Published 20 September 7 10:40 AM | SSQA.net

Here comes another Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) on the forums and Frequently Posted Blog (FPB) here about high cpu issues on the SQL Server 2000 instances. Looking at high cpu spiks and performace issues is a common problem in all SQL Server installations...

Filed under: sql server, performance, databases, blogs, blocking, query, kba, cpu, execution plan, backups, resources, high cpu, FAQ

Having 'black-box' recorder for SQL Server!

Published 2 July 7 3:34 AM | SSQA.net

Say you have a serious performance problem and few times you will have assertion issue with a dump files creation, in real world say this can be matched to a airplane crash. Where you will know the sequence of events from Black-box records in the flight...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, performance, msdn, blogs, trace, black-box