Performance - one word does it all! You are aware that during the Performance Tuning exercise there are few quick wins within the SQL Server Relational Database Engine such as table statistics for data and indexes. When it comes to Analysis Services (BI) database then no difference as one o f the greatest...
Recently we have had problems on one of the database that is used on 24/7 basis where a ETL process to import and export millions of rows on few tables has been taking longer time to finish. Further the SELECT queires on reports are timed-out and smaller queries are taking more time to finish. First...
The ascmd.exe command-line utility is a handy tool for testing performance characteristics to determine the appropriate values for parallel processing. This utility is similar to the sqlcmd.exe utility that you use to execute SQL statements in SQL Server. The ascmd.exe utility executes XMLA commands...
Got an email to inbox asking a resolution for : I can't find a remedy for this problem on Google either. Any help would be appreciated. When performing the data mining cube process - Error: Memory error: Allocation failure : Not enough storage is available to process this command. For the error text...
Yet another important factors that every DBA needs to concerned about table & index fragmentation within their SQL Server environment. Refer to the a rticle about DetectTableFragmentation in both 2000 and 2005 version. Fragmentation occurs due to updates and delets on the table and the golden rule...
First thing a DBA would follow to troubleshoot a query is to look at the process (SPID) ID for that query and with the help of Enterprise Manager tool looking at the Current Activity option under management pane will give you list of processes that are running on the SQL Server instance. Similarly you...