Capacity Planning Using Performance Data
Erin Stellato discusses the types of performance data needed to help with capacity planning.
2016-12-22
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Capacity planning
How Long Before Your Database Runs Out of Space?
Almost all SQL Server databases grow in size over time. Capacity planning is an important activity for the DBA. You need to know how long before you run out of space long before you actually do. Here are some helpful tips and tricks.
2017-05-12 (first published: 2016-06-09)
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Database Space Capacity Planning
Describes a process to create a consolidated space forecasting report, which focuses on a "days remaining" metric.
2009-10-13
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Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the performance of I/O intensive workloads. However, extra CPU resources are required on the database server to compress and decompress the data, while data is exchanged with the application. Therefore, it is important to understand the workload characteristics when deciding which tables to compress.
2009-08-11
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Data Warehouse Capacity Planning as Capacity Enforcement
Capacity planning is a problem for a data warehouse because it sets contrasting functional requirements against each other. On one hand, data warehouse customers consume data warehouse capacity as they query the data in the data warehouse business intelligence (BI) reporting. Meanwhile, applications consume data warehouse capacity as they load data into a data warehouse through the extract, transform and load (ETL) process.
2008-09-19
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Capturing SQL Server 2005 database file size information
It's very important to capture trends of the sizes of your SQL Server 2005 database because it allows you to plan for future space needs, notice types of problems, and plan for time periods of heavy volume. I'll show you the simple method that I use to capture this information.
2008-09-04
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Creating Databases
SQL Server makes it very easy for anyone to create a database. However it's worth spending a few minutes thinking about how you plan a database and SQL Server trainer Andy Warren brings us some thoughts on the subject.
2008-08-27
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Monitoring on a Budget
Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try this
2007-11-19
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RE: Year To Date Data in Fact Table
A basic entry point is to use the YTD in conjunction with a SUM() function, but this may not produce correct results where your measures aren't summed (e.g. distinct counts).If you google YTD +MDX you'll get a lot of listings returned for help with this. TO get you started, this is a link to an […]
2004-12-07
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RE: StoredProc is slow from ASP but not from QA
80GB HD, two partitions, database files on 2nd partition I've been told that it's really NOT a good idea to put SQL Server on the SAME physical hard drive as your System drive because of the "head thrashing" caused by all the seeks for both reading and writing. Furthermore, your caching for both the System and […]
2004-10-19
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