I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm still coming up short.

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As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

This week Seagate and Supermicro announced a preconfigured SQL server reference architecture for data warehouse deployments, as part of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 Fast Track program.

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...

I am trying to output several large tables (10's of MB) from SQL PLus over Citrix and it's really slow. set pagesize 0 set autotrace off set flush off set termout off spool l:\\spool\\acctact.txt ...

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