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Over 85 practical recipes for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system. Book and eBook expected June 2011 . Pre-order now! Multi-format orders get free access on PacktLib , This practical cookbook will show you the advanced administration...
Server consolidation & virtualization is a hot topic and also it is one of the biggest concerns for many DBAs is scalability/performance when it comes to virtualization. At this point,performance for virtual machines can be close to, if not the same...
Profiler, Perfmon, DMVs & scripts are legendary tools for a DBA to monitor the SQL arena. In line with these tools SQL Server 2008 throws a powerful stream with policy based management (PBM) framework & management data warehouse (MDW) methods...
To followup from The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 20485670 bytes, but was unable to swap out any buffers to relieve memory pressure blog post, here are few findings that I would like to share. When you see that SQL Server instance...
When you setup a program or application then you have equal responsibility to monitor the process/problems too. Similar to this monitoring a replication topology is an important aspect of deploying SQL Server replication. As the process is distributed...
The subject line of this post is a common factor that every DBA might have (once in lifetime). Performance Monitoring is a big subject when it comes to practice, many factors include such as what to monitor, how often more from here ...
Policy Based Management (PBM) is an effective system for DBAs to manage one or more instances of SQL Server. Just to give a brief overview of what it consists, it consists 3 components: Policy management for Administrators to create policies Explicit...
In continuation to SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities and SQL Server troubleshooting tools PSSDiag, SQLDiag, SQLNexus, RML Utilities and ReadTrace: which one to choose? posts here it will be a wonderful news for DBAs to...
Cross post from my blog: Power_of_MDW
In general it is not a best practice to perform SHRINK database operation on a production server, atleast regularly! Sometimes it may be compulsory to keep them sized in order to ensure the disk storage is not compromised for any sudden changes to databases...
