We run JD Edwards' One World here on an NT 4 sql server. It's a pretty decent server but lately it's been running like a dog. It's a 4-way 450mhz Xeon(2mb cache) machine with 4gigs of ram. All drives ...

SQL Server performance tuning is a complex topic due to how layered it is. While performance problems can often be traced back to data storage issues, the performance tuning process is a "holistic ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

This book aims to improve the performance of your SQL Servers, how does it fare? The book discusses methods and tools, that can be used to identify and fix common SQL Server problems, using a ...

Do your SQL queries run too quickly? I thought not! Many DBAs don’t know where to start performance tuning. The August issue of SQL Server Pro suggests strategies for achieving peak performance. There ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

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Hey folks. So I'm back with another one of my strange questions. I have read a number of websites focused on pulling the maximum performance out of SQL Server that one can get. A number of these pages ...