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SQL Server 2012 Availability group disk configuration options

Background I am quite far into the process of setting up a 2 server SQL Server 2012 Always on availability cluster to provide redundancy with a readable secondary replica of all our databases. Since ...
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Optimal drive configuration for SQL Server 2008R2

I have a fairly busy database server running SQL Server 2008 R2 that has the following setup: SATA RAID 1 (2 Drives) - OS / Programs SAS RAID 10 (4 Drives) - Sql Database Files (data and logs) SAS ...
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Strategies for organising SQL Server with large amount of RAM

We now have a new server for our DB and amongst other things we have 128GB of RAM available (previously I had 16GB) . I know SQL Server is very good at managing it's resources, but I was wondering if ...
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What utilities can I use to simulate I/O load for a DB restore and DBCC check?

I'm trying to figure out the peak load I can sustain on new hardware I procured for validating backups and performing DBCC checks. I've been using Crystal Diskmark to get throughput stats which helped ...
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SAN block size for SQL Server on 4KB NTFS

A potential customer wants to evaluate our storage system. They run Windows 2008R2 x64 with 4KB NTFS on a virtual test machine they've sent us. They did not seem to know this at hand, so I think it's ...
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Why don't SQL Server queries use more than 7MB/sec of disk I/O

I have an SSD that, using IOmeter test, shows performance over 200MB/s. However when I run any SQL query from local machine the windows resource monitor never shows disk IO above 7MB/sec. This holds ...
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SQL Server recommended MAXDOP settings for NUMA

I have an OLTP SQL Database running on SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition that may be fairly busy (5000 batches/sec) in next couple of months after going live production. Looking into server configuration ...
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Is 2.23 mbs/sec for 8k random writes slow? [closed]

I have recently ran some hard drive benchmarks on one of my servers follow Brent Ozar's blog. For the random writes test, i got 86.52 ios/sec and 2.23mbs/sec. I am not a hardware person, and my sys ...
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Hard Drive Configuration for my setup

I have a fairly large transactional database (100GB) with a lot of users. The database access is solely via stored procs that make heavy use of temp tables, table variables, cursors and other fun ...
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Custom SQL Server Computer Build

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I'm a user at StackOverflow, and when I perused the StackExchange websites, this was the best match I could find. So, if I've posted in the wrong ...
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Is there a performance benefit to placing transaction log files on a separate drive?

There are many blog posts and best practice articles extolling the virtues of placing the SQL Server data file on one hard drive and the transaction log on another. The reason given is that that the ...