Generally, you will have no need to worry about the number of virtual log files in your transaction log. However, if you use the default settings for 'auto-grow', you can end up with such 'fragmentation' in your transaction log as to affect performance noticably. How can this be avoided? How can you tell it's a problem? What do you do about it? Greg explains.
2012-11-23 (first published: 2012-05-01)
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2012-11-22
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Check tempdb to see if it has been autogrown since the last restart. If it has, there may be an opportunity to improve server performance.
2012-11-20
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Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.
2012-11-20
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When you have SSAS cubes with millions of rows of data, it is very helpful to create partitions. If you have a few cubes you could probably do this manually, but if there are many or if you want to automate this process you should look for smarter solutions such as programming the creation of partitions dynamically.
2012-11-19
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SQL Saturday in the Ukraine. If you want a free day of training, sign up and attend.
2012-11-19
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The final day of Simon's journey to improve his OLAP knowledge and build a prototype cube.
2012-11-16
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This article explains how to use the GROUPING clause to generate subtotals for rows in a very easy fashion.
2012-11-16 (first published: 2010-07-13)
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A free day of SQL Server Business Intelligence sessions in Tampa, FL tomorrow.
2012-11-16
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SQL Server Failover Clustering, which includes support for both local and multisite failover configurations, is part of the SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn implementation suite, designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server. The multisite failover clustering technology has been enhanced significantly in SQL Server 2012. The multisite failover cluster architecture, enhancements in SQL Server 2012 to the technology, and some best practices to help with deployment of the technology are the primary focus of this paper.
2012-11-16
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