Migration to 2008 R2. Not as easy as Copy & Paste [Performance]
Better hardware and the latest SQL Server release does not always mean that things will run faster.
Tag Archives: performance
Table Structure, Trading Maintenance with Performance [SQL Server]
With this exercise we have effectively increased performance at the expense of maintenance. Well worth the change.
Incorrect Bios Settings Can Reduce Database Performance [SQL Server]
It turned out that the issue was not Hyper Threading related, but a Bios misconfiguration instead.
Summarizing Performance issues and workarounds after migrating from 2005 to 2008 R2 [SQL Server]
We were able to tune the offending processes and go from 85% sustained CPU utilization to almost nil.
Microsoft Says there is nothing wrong with SQL Server 2008 R2
Over 3 weeks ago we solved the issue we were having with one particular cluster node running SQL Server 2008 R2. We have been going back and forth with Microsoft to obtain an explanation on why the erratic behavior of the RDBMS engine.