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• T-SQL Tuesday #004: Real World SSD’s

  A contribution for T-SQL Tuesday #004 , hosted by the illustrious Mike Walsh! In the past few weeks I had some correspondence with Kendal Van Dyke leading up to his SQL Saturday presentation on SSDs, and he got me fired up to share a little of my team’s Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 9:22 PM by merrillaldrich | 4 Comments Filed under: performance, san, Solid State Disks, Storage Design

• SAN 101 for the DBA

  As will become apparent from this post, I am no Storage Admin. My apologies for offending the sensibilities of those who know this topic better than I do! I get asked occasionally about placing SQL Server data on SAN storage, and I've done it with a few Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:45 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: performance, san, Storage Design

• Using Historical Perf Counter Data For Storage Planning

  Lately I'm faced with a fairly ambitious data center move, and at the same time with an initiative to consolidate sprawling SQL Servers onto centralized clusters. It's a chunk of work, but these two notions have fit together pretty well: as long as we're Read More... Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:42 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: diagnostics, monitoring, performance, san

• SAN Disk Array Performance: Beware LUN Concatenation

  I'd like to pass along a couple of tips for those new to using SAN storage for SQL Server. SAN Storage is quite expensive, and doubly so if your storage doesn't deliver on the performance front. SAN disk arrays are not magic, and sadly they don't just Read More... Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:17 PM by merrillaldrich | 2 Comments Filed under: performance, san