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		<title>How to Use System Monitor to Identify SQL Server Hardware Bottlenecks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance Audit Checklist  Counter Name    Average   Minimum   Maximum   Memory: Pages/sec        Memory: Available Bytes        Physical Disk: % Disk time        Physical Disk: Avg. Disk Queue Length        Processor: % Processor Time        System: Processor Queue Length        SQL Server Buffer: Buffer Cache [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Database Options and Configuration Performance Audit Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Database Options and Configuration Settings Database Configuration Settings Default Value Current Value auto_close off auto_create_statistics on auto_update_statistics on auto_update_statistics_asynch off auto_shrink off read_only off page_verify checksum parameterization simple compatibility level 90 database auto grow on transaction log auto grow on Enter your results in the table above.&#160; Every Database Needs to Be Audited . When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Server Configuration Performance Audit Checklist Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blocked Process Threshold This option is new to SQL Server 2005. The blocked process threshold option is used to specify the threshold, in seconds, when blocked process reports are generated. By default, no blocked process reports are produced. You can define an alert to be executed when this event is generated. For example, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Server Configuration Performance Audit Checklist : Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad McGehee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance Audit Checklist Enter your results in the table above. Most SQL Server 2005 Configuration Settings Should Not Be Changed In this section, we are going to take a look at some of the . These are SQL Server-specific settings that can be modified using Management Studio, SP_CONFIGURE, and in some cases, the Surface Area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Performance Audit : Operating System Configuration Performance Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad McGehee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SQL Server 2005 Operating System Configuration Checklist: Which OS version are you running? Are the disk partitions formatted using the most recent version of NTFS?Is &#8220;NTFS data file encryption and compression&#8221; turned off? Do you have at least 20% free space on each of your logical disk drives?Does your server OS have the latest service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Performance Audit : SQL Server Hardware Configuration Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad McGehee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; SQL Server Hardware Configuration Checklist: &#160; Number of CPUs (and or Cores)&#160;&#160; &#160; 32-Bit vs. 64-Bit &#160; CPU MHz&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160; CPU L2 Cache Size&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160; Physical RAM Amount&#160;&#160; &#160; SAN vs. Local Storage &#160; Total Amount of Available Drive Space on Server&#160;&#160; &#160; Total Number of Physical Drives in Each Array&#160;&#160; &#160; RAID Level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Performance Audit : Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad McGehee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a SQL Server consultant, I often get requests to &#8220;look over&#8221; a SQL Server and to offer suggestions on how to boost its performance. Sometimes this task is easy, and other times it is difficult. Based on experience, I have discovered that my time is best spent looking first for the “easy-to-identify-and-solve” performance problems, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Performance Monitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably already know, SQL Server is very good at tuning itself. It has the ability to monitor itself, and through a feedback loop, it knows how to internally adjust and tune itself so that it keeps running efficiently, even when external events, such as the number of user connections or the amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Error Message:Msg 169, Level 15, State 1, Line 1A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique. Severity level:15. Description:This error message appears when a column name in the ORDER BY clause appears more than once. Consequences:The T-SQL statement can be parsed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could not drop constraint. See previous errors.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Error Message:Msg 3727, Level 16, State 0, Line 1Could not drop constraint. See previous errors. Severity level:16. Description:This error message appears when you try to DROP a constraint, but this however was, due to an error, not successfully completed. Consequences:The T-SQL statement can be parsed, but causes the error at runtime. Resolution:Error of the Severity [...]]]></description>
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