try turning your virtual ram off. Keep every thing in ram.

Test your Ram using memtest89

Driver may be a problem. Install the latest patch for Oracle There a bug with path that have"(x86)" in them.

DTS Package will require 32 drivers. Link server will require 64...

I would do this.

If you are going to loss a million dollars a day Then

Billing System and Catalog

Cluster in Europe, Active / Passive

Or

Mirroring with client redirect (ADO 2.0)

Billing...

Read this article from Microsoft.

"Physical Database Storage Design"

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/physdbstor.mspx

There is nothing wrong with DAS. It is way cheaper.

SQLMAG.COm Search

DAS

or

Pare Down and Power Up

and

google

Jim gray and microsoft

This may help

http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2007/02/21/sql-server-urban-legends-discussed.aspx

SQL Server Urban Legends Discussed

I have been answering questions on two of the most misunderstood ‘SQL Server Urban Legends’ frequently again so I decided to make...

Yes it can, but you have to be a programmer.

You have a SSIS package that an SQL agent job calls every hour.

Does File exist, NO, exit.

Else yes.

Is file Processed? if...

I would say a SAN or NAS over a DAS, because to model DISK IO is a little hard.

I would look for a system that will let me expand a...

I say it depends.

If the data will fit in a row or less than 8K I might put it in the same File,

But if the data is large I...

SQL Server Databases object Transaction/sec doesn't measure activity unless it's inside a transaction. SQL Server General Statistics Batch Requests/sec measures all batches you send to the server even if they...

You can create some very complicated LUN on a SAN I might have 2 disk from tray 1

5 disk from tray 3

3 disk from tray 7

to make a raid 1_0...

A major architectural problem!!!!!!

This is what you need.

x64 SQL2005 Enterprise.

x64 Windows server 2008

4 or 8 7000 serious quad core xeon processors 16 or 32 cores

64 GB of Ram

A massively...

This is a great thread.

Every one has seen the pain point of SAN or System admin designing storage by size and not IO, Disk latency, Bytes transferred, and work load.

We...

Forget the rule of One LUN or File to one Processor. Is that the StarWars Sith rule of something:) That was an old SQL 2000 theory.

In 2005 an since the...

I have done 3 project like this allready. It can be a nightmare.

Your SAN, NAS, DAS vender will work with you to spec out the storage.

They will base line...