Thank you for your excellent directions - I should have read it more closely:-)  I've run them on the 2017 box.  Should I run it on the 2008 box...

did you run the cmd file that I supplied with the 3 commands on it? your reply does not indicate you did it as I asked.

or maybe you did run...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

the issue with trying this at a DB level is that you are not proving anything - if the OS/VM/Storage is badly configured then ALL the IO is going to...

Jeff will no doubt add something here - do heed his advise.

but as mentioned (and as you yourself raised as an issue) partitioning should only be used when most of...

one one of your other posts you mentioned that your VM's were Vmware - AWS and AZURE are a totally different kettle of fish and settings for those are way...

see the other threads from the OP - using a sql...

this is a waste of time in my opinion - see history behind this request at https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/degraded-performance-in-2017-vs-2008-r2-with-inserts

I can run this code in multiple servers, with different specs and results will...

and the views used? user_Type_mgmt is a view as well - but in this case I don't think it won't matter its content

if you can replace this query and stop...

and corresponding info for old server?

once I have time I'll dig a few scripts to extract a different set of info - but nothing special on the above (other than...

I'm more interested on the server info -  did you run it with the flag I mentioned? it should not have returned any specific database information.

CU you should definitely upgrade...

can you also download and install sp_blitz (https://www.brentozar.com/blitz/) - you only need to install sp_Blitz.sql - this will add a few SP's to the database you run it on

and then...

or define variable outside cursor and delete it in each loop - only feasible if the table variable does not have a identity column which needs reseed - see https://www.grapefruitmoon.net/table-variables-identity-columns-and-reseeding/

but...

ah well... files don't wanna be loaded anymore - so putting contents here

sqliosim.cfg.ini

[CONFIG]
ErrorFile=sqliosim.log.xml
;CPUCount=2
;Affinity=0
;IOAffinity=0
;MaxMemoryMB=209
StopOnError=TRUE
TestCycles=1
TestCycleDuration=300
CacheHitRatio=10000
NoBuffering=TRUE
WriteThrough=TRUE
MaxOutstandingIO=0
TargetIODuration=100
AllowIOBursts=TRUE
UseScatterGather=TRUE
ForceReadAhead=FALSE
DeleteFilesAtStartup=TRUE
DeleteFilesAtShutdown=TRUE
StampFiles=FALSE

[File1]
FileName=C:\sqliotest\sqliosim.mdx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=TRUE
LogFile=FALSE
Sparse=FALSE

[File2]
FileName=C:\sqliotest\sqliosim.ldx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=FALSE
LogFile=TRUE
Sparse=FALSE

sqliosim.seqwrites.cfg.ini

[CONFIG]
ErrorFile=sqliosim.log.xml
;CPUCount=2
;Affinity=0
;IOAffinity=0
;MaxMemoryMB=209
StopOnError=TRUE
TestCycles=1
TestCycleDuration=300
CacheHitRatio=10000
NoBuffering=TRUE
WriteThrough=TRUE
MaxOutstandingIO=0
TargetIODuration=100
AllowIOBursts=TRUE
UseScatterGather=TRUE
ForceReadAhead=FALSE
DeleteFilesAtStartup=TRUE
DeleteFilesAtShutdown=TRUE
StampFiles=FALSE

[RandomUser]
UserCount=0
JumpToNewRegionPercentage=500
MinIOChainLength=50
MaxIOChainLength=100
RandomUserReadWriteRatio=9000
MinLogPerBuffer=64
MaxLogPerBuffer=8192
RollbackChance=100
SleepAfter=5
YieldPercentage=0
CPUSimulation=FALSE
CPUCyclesMin=0
CPUCyclesMax=0

[AuditUser]
UserCount=0
BuffersValidated=64
DelayAfterCycles=2
AuditDelay=200

[ReadAheadUser]
UserCount=0
BuffersRAMin=32
BuffersRAMax=64
DelayAfterCycles=2
RADelay=200

[BulkUpdateUser]
;UserCount=4
BuffersBUMin=600
BuffersBUMax=1000
DelayAfterCycles=2
BUDelay=1

[ShrinkUser]
MinShrinkInterval=120
MaxShrinkInterval=600
MinExtends=1
MaxExtends=20

[File1]
FileName=c:\sqliotest\sqliosim.mdx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=FALSE
LogFile=FALSE
Sparse=FALSE

[File2]
FileName=c:\sqliotest\sqliosim.ldx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=FALSE
LogFile=TRUE
Sparse=FALSE

sqliosim.seqwrites_64k.cfg.ini

[CONFIG]
ErrorFile=sqliosim.log.xml
;CPUCount=2
;Affinity=0
;IOAffinity=0
;MaxMemoryMB=209
StopOnError=TRUE
TestCycles=1
TestCycleDuration=300
CacheHitRatio=10000
NoBuffering=TRUE
WriteThrough=TRUE
MaxOutstandingIO=0
TargetIODuration=100
AllowIOBursts=TRUE
UseScatterGather=TRUE
ForceReadAhead=FALSE
DeleteFilesAtStartup=TRUE
DeleteFilesAtShutdown=TRUE
StampFiles=FALSE

[RandomUser]
UserCount=0
JumpToNewRegionPercentage=500
MinIOChainLength=50
MaxIOChainLength=100
RandomUserReadWriteRatio=9000
MinLogPerBuffer=64
MaxLogPerBuffer=8192
RollbackChance=100
SleepAfter=5
YieldPercentage=0
CPUSimulation=FALSE
CPUCyclesMin=0
CPUCyclesMax=0

[AuditUser]
UserCount=0
BuffersValidated=64
DelayAfterCycles=2
AuditDelay=200

[ReadAheadUser]
UserCount=0
BuffersRAMin=32
BuffersRAMax=64
DelayAfterCycles=2
RADelay=200

[BulkUpdateUser]
;UserCount=4
BuffersBUMin=64
BuffersBUMax=128
DelayAfterCycles=2
BUDelay=1

[ShrinkUser]
MinShrinkInterval=120
MaxShrinkInterval=600
MinExtends=1
MaxExtends=20

[File1]
FileName=c:\sqliotest\sqliosim.mdx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=FALSE
LogFile=FALSE
Sparse=FALSE

[File2]
FileName=c:\sqliotest\sqliosim.ldx
InitialSize=500
MaxSize=5000
Increment=500
Shrinkable=FALSE
LogFile=TRUE
Sparse=FALSE

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

SQLIOSIM is part of the standard SQL installation since 2008 - located on the binn directory (for a sql 2022 it would be C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn - assuming default...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

I gave you a series of links for IO testing - and I've also gave you a series of questions to ask your VM admin - have these get back...