If your IO is quick enough...

Here is an update for everyone.

After removing the split/mix of data, log and index files from 5 DBs between 5 RAID5 drives the system has been running stable for several...

Hi everyone,

For a detailed explanation of the differences between SE and EE (CPU, memory, clustering, etc.) please see this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx

This link explains the memory support and AWE...

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your ideas.

I agree with several of you, that we should not mix the logs and indexes and data files from all the DBs on the same drives.

At...

John,

I had problems when the Windows Admin changed the normal system backup time to around the same time as SQL. Then the Windows backup application had a lock on the...

Hi Sugesh,

Since the server is not yet productive, after it froze the first time we deleted the DBs, restored them again, ran our upgrade scripts again and then did the DB...