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  • RE: SQL 2014 HA /DR Licensing

    You need to talk to your license reseller to work out the most business-effective and cost-effective design.

    You need to talk to your license reseller to work out the most business-effective...

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  • RE: Disable TCP Chimney by default?

    If you are running in AWS then disabling TCP Offload can give a performance benefit - it certainly did for my employer.

    SQL FineBuild will by default disable TCP...

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  • RE: bcdedit

    See https://sqlserverfinebuild.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Windows%20Memory%20Switches for suggestions of what switches you should use.

    As Gail says, most of these settings only give a benefit in a small number of situations.

    The UserVa value is only...

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  • RE: POOR HIGH DPI BEHAVIOR

    The image you show is 'standard' when you use high DPI settings within Windows 🙁

    A Microsoft GUI is typically designed with fixed field lengths that are measured in...

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  • RE: Can Cluster Index improve Performance?

    It can be easy to get stuck in making sure that a process works, and lose sight of the reason you are doing the work.

    In general eliminating fragmentation is a...

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  • RE: Questioning the effects of 100% CPU usage

    The Devs seem to be asking you to prove that the CPU hogs are a problem to SQL Server. I would try to turn that round, and get the...

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  • RE: Backing up a production SQL Database

    I don't think I've seen a link to Ola's maintenance solution on this thread, so https://ola.hallengren.com/.

    His processes are first-rate and regularly maintained to cope with new features and problems.

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  • RE: Readonly copy of parts of the database on another server for reporting purposes

    I think Steve is on the best track. You need to look at three things: 1) Total size of the objects you need to copy; 2) Rate of change...

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  • RE: Pay It Forward

    Maybe we should stop thinking of employees as 'Resources' and start thinking of them as 'Domain Experts'.

    All employees gain expertise of their work domain as they perform their jobs. ...

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  • RE: Cluster Windows Server 2012R2 + SQL Server 2012

    Are your database files hosted on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) or traditional cluster disks.

    If they are on CSVs you should see no outage at failover. If they are on...

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  • RE: Standard Edition - SORT_IN_TEMPDB

    You do not get the space back because you are not blowing up a balloon.

    A data file is a rigid container, not a flexible one. If you...

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  • RE: Standard Edition - SORT_IN_TEMPDB

    Jeff's reply + 1

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  • RE: SQL 2012 Performance in Hyper V Platform

    Is TCP Offload disabled on the Hyper-V host and on all guest machines?

    TCP offload was originally designed to improve performance by forcing the network adaptor to do some...

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  • RE: DBCC SHRINKDATABASE TRUNCATEONLY

    Before you do a shrink and a index defrag, ask yourself what has to happen while the index is running. Work through in your own mind what space is...

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  • RE: The Decline of SQL Server

    SQL Server is a great product, but the licensing cost of recent versions has forced us to loo at what else is on the market.

    Amazon Redshift provides much the same...

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