Security, whether it is for your home or systems you have to be very careful! Ed Gibson, Chief Cyber Security Advisor from Microsoft has articulated very nice article that will talk more about these aspects, we have had a brief meeting with Ed when I was at Microsoft TVP during SQLBits conference. You...
You might have come across on the web resources that setting the disk to a 64k cluster size (8 * 8KB pages) might achieve the performance. But have you wondered will this really boost the disk performance, see in what scenario such as lots of reads and writes from the database to disk. In this case take...
Within your SQL Server environment there are few simple steps you can take up in order to gain performance to a level, for instance when configuring a SQL Server that will only contain a few gigabytes (GB) of data and not sustain heavy read nor write activity, it is not as important to be concerned with...