Is there a best practice to advise a storage admin how to set a SAN up best for SQL Server OLTP & OLAP? or is this entirely company dependent?
There are some general best practices such as separate data and log LUNs, separate TempDB from everything else. For data warehouses make sure that the data is spread over as many disks as possible. Anything more specific however is very company specific and would require a good understanding of what the databases look like as […]
For SQL, best practice is to have data on one array, logs on another array and tempdb on another array. how does this work in san world? SAN people don’t really give all these options when assigning storage for database server.
Even when using a storage array it is typically best practice to have the data on one LUN, logs on another LUN, and tempdb on another LUN. Especially if you have the option to putting each LUN on different physical disks. If you I talked a little more about this a couple of weeks ago, […]
So you’ve changed the text display settings, and SSMS still won’t show more than 256 characters.
By default SQL Server Management Studio will only show you 256 characters per column. The fix for this is pretty easy. You click on Tools > Options to being up the options menu. From there navigate to Query Results > SQL Server > Results To Text. Change the “Maximum number of characters displayed in each […]
Some job descriptions just have to be shared
So I’m going along doing my work thing, shrinking databases rebooting servers at random, etc. and I get an email some of which I’ve included below asking if I’d be interested in this job opening. I’ve cut out the names, etc. to protect the stupid. Below is the response that I sent back. Industry Confidential […]