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  • RE: Find out the size of database tables, row count, data size, index growth

    tinakothari (11/18/2012)


    I want to create table and all columns. column names are database name, current date, row count, data size, index size.

    in this table i want to insert about all...

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  • RE: Stop sql serive also stops another service

    ARCGIS or ARCSDE may use either an oracle or sql server RDBMS, it wouldn't be my preference to install the GIS system on the database server as these systems can...

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  • RE: New DBA job, done some digging on Database and have some concerns!

    bugg (11/18/2012)


    What performance impact will it have on a production DB? The DB is up 24/7 with users connected at all times.

    I will double check how far back the...

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  • RE: size of LOB data 41GB smaller after BACKUP/RESTORE

    what was done to the database in between the restore to the secondary server and then the new backup, got any maintenance tasks\scripts running?

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  • RE: SQL SP/CU taking HOURS on Multi-Node Multi-Instance Cluster

    ah ok, to be honest i've never just sat there and watched it. Incidentally why do you have all 22 instances installed across all 5 nodes?

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  • RE: What would be the best RAID configuration for this hardware?

    I usually use 256KB for data and backup drives and 64KB for log files

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  • RE: Log Shipping question.

    jfogel (11/15/2012)


    Much appreciated. I thought I knew a lot more about this stuff but as I'm digging in I'm finding some surprises.

    😉

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  • RE: SQL Server AD authentication issue through firewall

    do you have an AD Global Catalog configured on the remote site?

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  • RE: What would be the best RAID configuration for this hardware?

    the stripe size specifically, the optimal stripe sizes for SQL Server are 64KB and 256KB.

    As i mentioned above you need to vary your tests as data files are typically 8KB...

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  • RE: What would be the best RAID configuration for this hardware?

    MyDoggieJessie (11/16/2012)


    Again as mentioned above this storage array will only be used for data and index files (NO log or tempdb files)

    in that case for data and index files you'll...

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  • RE: What would be the best RAID configuration for this hardware?

    you need to benchmark for a little more than 4KB sequential even for the T-log. Test for the following

    8KB random read and write

    4-60KB sequential write

    64KB sequential read and write

    up to...

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  • RE: What would be the best RAID configuration for this hardware?

    MyDoggieJessie (11/15/2012)


    Running some tests using IOMeter (preferred the GUI to this one over SQLIOsim)

    Errm, for benchmarking your I\O capacity (which is what you're doing here) you need to be using...

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  • RE: SQL SP/CU taking HOURS on Multi-Node Multi-Instance Cluster

    how exactly are you installing the updates?

    The most efficient way is to run the patch with the AllInstances switch to update in one run.

    This article details the switches used

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  • RE: I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

    what are the status' of the arrays, check for dead disks, etc first. This may degrade RAID performance

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  • RE: Log Shipping question.

    jfogel (11/15/2012)


    Thank you. I will work with this tonight.

    OK sure, post back if you're still stuck 😉

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