Disk Space Usage and SQL Server Performance
Every extra byte of space you waste in your database causes a performance hit to your application. This article looks at disk space usage and how it affects performance.
2008-01-08
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Additional Articles
Measure TSQL Statement Performance
Every developer needs to ensure that each TSQL statement is optimized. This article will give you a few different ideas on how to identify slow running queries and provide you with some tips on monitor your query performance while you make iterative changes to each query to try and improve performance.
2008-01-08
4,445 reads
Building a Localized Report on a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Service Cube Data Source
Learn how to use an Analysis Services cube as a data source by using parameterized MDX queries, as well as how to localize label strings in a report, in SQL Server 2005.
2008-01-07
2,399 reads
SQL Server 2005 Encryption types
SQL Server 2005 provides four methods of encryption. Part one of this article covers encryption and decryption by passphrase.
2008-01-07
3,647 reads
Predeployment I/O Best Practices
The I/O system is important to the performance of SQL Server. When configuring a new server for SQL Server or when adding or modifying the disk configuration of an existing system, it is good practice to determine the capacity of the I/O subsystem prior to deploying SQL Server. This white paper discusses validating and determining the capacity of an I/O subsystem. A number of tools are available for performing this type of testing. This white paper focuses on the SQLIO.exe tool, but also compares all available tools. It also covers basic I/O configuration best practices for SQL Server 2005.
2008-01-04
3,111 reads
Set Functions: The .AllMembers Function
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson introduces the useful .AllMembers function, reinforcing the basic concepts, as always, with hands-on practice examples.
2008-01-04
2,173 reads
Introduction to Locking in SQL Server
Locking is a major part of every RDBMS and is important to know about. It is a database functionality which without a multi-user environment could not work. The main problem of locking is that in an essence it's a logical and not physical problem. This means that no amount of hardware will help you in the end. Yes you might cut execution times but this is only a virtual fix.
2008-01-03
4,767 reads
Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Database Backups
Backing up a database is one of the most important things you need to do when having a database driven application. It 's only all of your data in there, right? But often developers and management don't realize the importance of backups and overall proper backup strategy for the most important side of the business – data and it's consistency.
2008-01-03
4,487 reads
MDX Numeric Functions: The Max() Function
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson introduces the numeric Max()function, and leads hands-on practice examples of the basic concepts.
2008-01-02
1,984 reads
Top 10 SQL Server Integration Services and DTS tips
Top SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) tips from migrating and running DTS packages, to SSIS debugging, maintenance and programming in SQL Server 2005.
2008-01-02
5,713 reads
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