blades are for web and stuff like that stay away from blades for db
The X5355 is a much better choice than the Xeon 7100 line but later in September or October you should be able to buy the new quad-socket quad core...
there are alot of opinions, best to run the test scripts in my post, or use IOMeter or the MS utility SQLIOStress...
according to MS, if your app makes extensive use of temp tables, or other use of the tempdb, which could be queries with worktable, ie, hash, sort,...
i just realized my scripts do not start with SET NOCOUNT ON are you running QA local or remote put the SET NOCOUNT ON at the top check the messages...
try openning 4 windows in QA consecutively, ie, they have seqeuential spids, 51,52,53,54 run the test in each, one after the other, it could be the...
it not worth the effort for the PERC4, this card is already obsolete the PERC 5/E is essentially the same as the Intel and one of the LSI PCI-e SAS...
ok, lets try: Life's Three Certainties The madam opened the brothel door to see a rather dignified, well-dressed good looking man in his late 40s or...
yes, you are right was SET NOCOUNT ON applied?
my mistake, stripe i tested the performance characteristics of the Intel SCSI RAID controller, which is same as the Dell PERC4, same drivers, you...
RAID 1 + Span is RAID 10 = 1 + 0 = (mirror, then strip) Dell had serious issues with PERC 2 or 3, several years ago they had one model, but it could...
i think 346MB/sec is near the limit of 1 x 4Gb/s FC port but it could also be the limit for 20 disks in a SAN the older line of Clarion could only do...
Atheist An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that evolution had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What...
my experience is there is value in sticking with single vendor components within a system, of course i will buy memory from crucial is there is a...
see my post, http://www.sql-server-performance.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19595 without the execution plan etc, everything is a guessing game and...
in turn, you will instruct the next generation to read the available material on a subject, then come brief you to prove that they did their homework...
there is a paper or something that lists all activities that could use the tempdb if i come across it, will post i would suggest running profiler,...
Q1, it is not right or wrong it is: what is important to you? if you consider your users to be a**holes, then let them suffer for best data...
wow, you did some reading i absolutely despise reading instructions i like to tell other people to read instructions and then brief me (to prove that...
ugh! are you on build 2039? get a later hotfix this was very widely discussed when it came out but most of us probably assumed everyone had seen it...
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