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, then there is usually no reason to set any restrictions...
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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 MSDN blogs, Books Online and articles, frequently...
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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 way forward to fix the data file fragmentation in...
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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 only difference between Active-Passive configuration...
Though it is not a best practice to perform a CREATE INDEX on large tables during the online hours where you have number of users accessing the metadata of SQL Server database. Within SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition you can perform ONLINE indexes operation, in this regard review the blogs by SQLQuery...
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One of the recent usergroup meeting brought an interesting question that "what type of hardware I need for a RAID-5 Shared Array for SQL Server Cluster"? By default RAID5 hardware controller is best to hold as not to go with software RAID5 as it will be single-point-of-failure. When you talk...
Usage of Temporary tables or variables is a common scenario in SQL Server world, since SQL Server 2005 usage of TEMPDB references to the blog posts here: http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/04/05/sql-server-index-optimization-best-practices.aspx , http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive...
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As you are aware DMV - Dynamic management views are very good to provide server-level information and some of them with detailed information on the execution environment of the database engine. Just to introduce about DMVs, there are two types of dynamic management views and functions: Server-scoped...
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How do you define the terms "Performance Monitoring"? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes' for all the questions above, in general getting...
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