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  • Two Free Training Webcasts Open for Registration

    We've got two sessions that you need to sign up for right away.  The upcoming webcast for Oracle-oriented folks has huge registration numbers.  So get in while you still can before we hit the limit of what LiveMeeting can handle. Pain of the Week: SQL Server for the Oracle DBA Webcast: SQL Server for the Oracle DBADate: ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on May 24, 2010
  • Join Me May 19th for 24 Hours of PASS

    Join Us for 24 Hours of SQL Server Training (with a special focus on SQL Server 2008 R2)Did I mention that your Cohorts in Crime (that be me and Brent Ozar) are presenting?!? The FREE 24 Hours of PASS event is bringing an exceptional lineup of SQL Server and BI experts to your computer starting at 12:00 GMT (UTC) on May ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on April 26, 2010
  • For want of a nail

    For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.   I'm now in the middle of severity A case that is best depicted by this ...
    Posted to Michael Zilberstein (Weblog) by mz1313 on December 7, 2009
  • Old Performance Tuning Recommendations Die Hard

    It’s interesting to me that old and inaccurate performance tuning recommendations seem to have a life of their own.  In some ways, old performance tuning recommendations are like the Undead from some kind of cheesy, 1970’s zombie movie – no matter how many times you shoot them, they just keep coming back.   Here’s a good case in point, ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on June 23, 2009
  • Memory from Every Angle

    It seems like questions always come up about how to monitor memory.  But each time the question comes up, it’s slightly different.   Here’s a sort of FAQ for memory questions:   1.  How can I figure out memory and CPU consumption by database? a.  In SQL Server 2005, DMVs are of course the way to go.  Pre-SQL ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on October 14, 2008
  • Brains still matter - silly SSD notions

    Everytime a good product comes out, people seem to contrive bad ideas for what can be replaced, usually brains, or people with brains, or that people lacking brains can accomplish something on their own. Let me put it simply. Suppose one had a query that uses a nonclustered index, and required a key lookup, and the key lookup required a disk ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on September 8, 2008
  • IO Cost Structure – Anticipating SSD arrays

    An observant person has probably noticed that SQL queries requiring disk reads not only have longer duration but also higher CPU times. It is not hard then to deduce that disk access (for both HDD and SSD), which involves the OS performing an IO call, the SQL Server process finding a place in the buffer cache for the data pages, and possibly ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on September 4, 2008
  • SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD

    You might encounter a situation, under a very heavy workload, where processing for certain transactions starts out very efficiently, but over time becomes much less efficient.    A good place to start troubleshooting is, of course, PerfMon.  But PerfMon can fail to reveal the culprit, since the CPU can remain stable and moderate ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on May 14, 2008
  • NUMA AND TCP PORT AFFINITY

    If you’ve ever taken the time to read http://www.tpc.org/results/FDR/TPCC/hp_orca1tb_win64_fdr.pdf, you might find a bit in there that’s confusing.   ''Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64-bit Service Pack 1 was configured to utilize ''soft NUMA'', a feature that allows network connections to be affined to specific groups of CPUs ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on April 24, 2008
  • The Most Important Performance Monitor Counters for SQL Server

    If you're well-versed in using PerfMon, I'd like to hear about the counters that you use regularly and what constitutes a good or bad value.  However, it's a rare individual who knows their way around PerfMon and its multitude of performance objects and counters.  Which ones should you track?  And even if you know the ...
    Posted to Kevin Kline (Weblog) by KKline on March 28, 2008
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