First part of question is a pure newbie FAQ to know about, and the simple answer would be it is one of the Clustering type you can adopt within your SQL Server environment. To cover on newbie aspect both Active/Passive & Active/Active configuration is available within SQL Server, both operating system...
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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...
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 will be fulfill of improving performance on...
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Do you cache or not? By default SQL Server cache stores the data & query plan in cache to provide better performance for your queries. Similary caching is also included in SQL Server Reporting Services where this caching can shorten the time required to retrieve a report if the report is large or...
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This may be last post in Performance Tuning & Security blog section here for this year!! Most of this year in the forums & newsgroups I have seen a common question asking about memory configuration within SQL Server 2005. As you may be aware that SQL Server 2005 (onwards) the memory allocation...
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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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Have you ever performed huge operations such as deleting records of a table and processing inserts on that table at the same time? This is a common task that every application will have to perform and you can avoid by fine tuning your queries (mostly deletes). As you are aware the inserts operations...
What kind of database maintenance operations you should be doing when you are DBA? You should have better understanding on the terms in managing the Database platform at your end, without proper information it is very hard to say you are managing your platform effectively. Think about DBCC checks, backups...
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 version which is usage of VARDECIMAL with having...
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