Balancing Scalability With Availability
Jun 16, 2006
We are beginning to design a new application with SQL Server 2005. Our current production environment is slated to be two SQL Server 2005 machines with the databases residing on an EMC SAN. We have requirements to both have automatic failover between servers for availability and also be able to balance the load over two hot servers for scalability.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for things I need to consider in order to be able to implement both of these requirements? Can I implement database mirroring (for failover) and transactional replication (for balancing) given the hardware configuration I'v mentioned? Is more information needed? Where should I turn next?
I am coming off a mainly Oracle background for the last ten or so years with a smattering of SQL Server mixed in. I've tried to hit the ground running on this project, but sometimes find myself hitting the wall running instead.
Thanks,
Larry
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Jul 12, 2006
We have a multi-lingual website (English, Spanish and German). We have a table called Posts that is potentially getting really big.
We are in the initial design phase of the database and would like to know what the experts are suggesting to keep our database mean and lean in the long run.
We have been talking about splitting the database up into 3 separate databases, one for English, one for Spanish and one for German. The language specific databases would also be hosted in countries where the language is spoken eg. the German database would be hosted in Germany.
Or maybe database partitioning by language???
Making changes to 3 databases once launched seems like a nightmare. It would be nice to have one main database and maybe 2 (Spanish and German) €œsatellite€? databases or something like that €“ any ideas???.
Any suggestions of how to deal with this problem the best way would be greatly appreciated. We are using SQL Server 2005.
Newbie!
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We are having a conversation at work and the subject of load balancing with SQL came up. Right now we are running SQL Server 2014 on four (4) machines. I am using a AlwaysOn with Availability Groups (AG). Now I know that we can scale out the reading in AG by allowing the secondary serves to receive reads.
Is there a way to be able to do this with writes? Can I have in essences 2 masters that some how reconcile with each other? We are expecting a huge amount of writes in the near future and we need a way for SQL to handle the amount of traffic we are expecting with out any issues.
I explored the possibility of Peer - to - Peer replication; however, it seems that it would be more work if we are constantly making updates to the database scheme.
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Dec 5, 2007
Hi,
Whats the best way to test scalability on a database? I'm working on a new app, and have handed off developing the database to someone with more experience. Some tables will grow to many million records, and I don't want it to bottleneck. I need to have it fully tested before it goes live.
Is it reasonable to ask the person helping me to fill it with 10's of millions of rows to test performance? Is this a decent solution? If so, what would the best way to fill it be? If not, what steps should I take?
Thanks very much!
mike123
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Can I add more space to a mountpoint if required later on by adding hard disks .
Also if one can give some pointers to good file group configuration guidelines / storage align partitions , it will be very much helpful
Further I my server CPU has 4 cores , will having 4 filegroups help me in improving system performance.
If SAN has 2 controllers , is it preferred to run data file partition on one controller and log file partition on another.
Thanks in advance.
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Jan 25, 2006
Hi,First I would like to apologize for cross posting in three groups asI did not know which one would be the appropriate group. If some onepoints me to the correct one I will use that in the future.I am trying to findout the scalabilty of an user written extendedstore procedure. I have created a dll using a C program(modified/plagarized from some of the examples) . The main function ofthis extended SP is to act as a passthru to connect to an third partyODBC driver. All this is supposed to do is take the passthru sqlstatement, userid, passsword and connect to a remote server (IBM 3090Mainframe in our case) using a system ODBC connection and pass thereturned result set back to the stored procedure calling this extendedSP. I am trying to find out the answers for the following questions.1. What are the limitations of this approach.2. What would happen say if 2,000 concurrent calls per minute are madeto the extended SP from the web app.3. What would happen if this continued for say 4 hours. Will the memoryusage increase to point that will cripple the server assuming there isno memory leak in the dll.4. Are there any connection pooling concerns that I should payattention to specifically from an Extended SP point of view.5. Apart from compiling the dll using the "MultiThread" option should Ibe using other options to make sure the dll is threadsafe.SQL server Environment :OS - Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4SQL - SQLServer 2000 Enterprise edition SP3Hardware - 8 way 2 node cluster with 6Gb RAMAny help regarding this is greately appreciated.Prahalad
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Hello,
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What is the meaning of Loadbalancing and how can I use this term to my advantage.
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I have wrote load balancing in BOL and did not get any thing on it. can anyone refer me to where I can read more about it.
thanks
Ahmed
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Hi All,
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Since SQL Server can only support upto 32676 user connections (Theoretically), is it possible achieve this with clustering / dynamic load balancing. Does MSCS and SQL 7.0 support this. Any other ideas, 3rd party software etc?????
Any input will be of great help.
Thanks
NK
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Jul 20, 2005
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Sep 9, 2007
need advice for below scenario
currently am having a active / passive cluster sql 2000 server, due to the amount of transactions am moving to new high end servers with sql 2005 cluster.
incase the new cluster also doesnt stands the load what approach i should use similar to load balancing.
with regards
alby peter
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Apr 18, 2008
I want to know about Data Base Load balancing work. How to do that? I want to know that.
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Aug 14, 2007
Why SQL Server 2005 Dosn't Supoort Load Balancing?
I think Load Balancing is a feature of great necessity.
Would it be probably added to other features in Next versions?
thank every one
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Feb 28, 2005
Hi,
I have two sets of data i.e two instances of SQL server in two different cities. Data entry happens at both the places.I need to balance the data in two servers i.e. I need to Synchronize the data.
Currently I am Exchanging the data between two sides and using a Buffer database to update the incremental infromation.(Running a SQL script).
I have GUID columns in my database. I am too new to replication.I wanted to know whether I can implement repliaction and what changes i need to make?(e.g. Replacing GUID columns with Identity columns).
Permanent connectivity between two databases is required or Replication can be performed whenever connected?
Best Regards
Rohit
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Jun 15, 2006
We are storing all our SQL 2000 databases on SAN LUNs, and one of our databases currently uses a single 40GB file which is approaching capacity. If we add further files using different LUNs, the data will start being added to these new files. My questions are these: if we were to add a number of new LUNs to this database, is there a way to redistribute the existing data so it is balanced across all files in order to gain the most benefit from having multiple files, rather than just dispersing the additional fragments across the new files?
Will the optimise feature of the maintenance plan do this automatically during the index rebuilds?
Is it better to add more files to the PRIMARY filegroup, or add a number of filegroups with single files in each? We aren't looking to use filegroups for fiddling with our backups by the way.
Many thanks for any recommendations offered.
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When a web application becomes overloaded with traffic, one can offload itby load balancing and clustering the front end web servers. What happenswhen the back-end MSSQL database becomes overloaded? Does MYSQL offer loadbalancing and clustering?
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Apr 27, 2007
Hi guys, can I know whether 2 servers (load balancing) able to set up the mirroring on another server? From what I know, mirroring only can set 1 IP address for principal. I just want to double confirm on it. Thanks for any assistance here.
Best Regards,
Hans
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Apr 10, 2006
Hi,
We have a massive database that users run complex queries on. The queries are never the same so caching cannot be used too much effect. When many queries are run at one time by the various users the system slows down.
What we are trying to achieve is maybe have a primary SQL Server 2005 machine and multiple (4-5) SQL Server 2005 secondary machines. The primary machine would get the query and would decide based on loads as to which secondary machine would fulfill the query.
We are not worried about failover and clustering and all that fun stuff. Our primary concern is to achieve the quickest execution of the query. We were wondering if SQL Server 2005 has any feature that enables query load balancing of some kind.
Thanks
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Nov 3, 2006
Is it compatible to set up SQL DB mirroring on 2
different physical servers (High availbility + FULL transaction safety +
Automatic failover with a third server as witness) and simultaneously set up
network load balancing between these 2 servers (option with Windows Server 2003
Enterprise) ?
If yes, which type of licenses do I need and how
many (for SQL server 2005 and Windows Server 2003) with such a configuration
?
- 4 physical servers in total : A, B, C and
D
- load balancing between A and B (same application)
- load balancing between C and D (same application)
- A hosts principal DB X, B hosts mirror of DB
X
- C hosts principal DB Y, D hosts mirror of DB
Y
- D is witness for A and B
- B is witness for C and D
- A and B : only internal clients <
25
- C and D : both internal and external clients
(internal clients <25, number of external clients is unknown (>25)
)
Hoping this description will be helpful enough for
you...
(I am looking for a very high availability
system)
Thank you in advance for your support.
This licensing question is pretty much urgent (for
a bid) : a quick answer would be very appreciated...
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Jun 7, 2005
Hi!Currently we only have one SQL Server database in our production system. I would like to add one more SQL server 2000 database. I would like to configure them so that both server share the load and Failover. I did some research and I found that I can do this by installing the OS (Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Edition) and SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition on both machines using the windows clustering. I want both servers to be active. They both have a copy of the production data. What I don't know is that, if it is possible to synchronize the data on both databases using SQL Server Replication utitlites. From what I know one SQL Server must be Publisher and one Subscriber. Can one sql server be both? Because I want both sql server to be identical. Can I set up replication between more than 2 servers? We just need to add one server for now but I would like it to be expandable. In the future we may need more.So Please provide me some ideas and answers about the following.1- Can two SQL Server cross replicate (both update each other in order to be identical)?2 -Does replication work beyond 2 servers.?3- If you were to set up a production database; what do you recommend considering the load balancing and Failover using Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Edition and SQL Sever 20000 Enterprise Edition?Thanks,Michael
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Oct 15, 2007
We are looking at expanding our web application (C# and Sql Server). The module we are going to be adding will be far more processor intense (plotting and modeling) than any of the current code.
I need to know what the best design for this add on would be.
Would it be better to
a) Keep the new module as part of the core db (entire application on 1 database) and use loading balncing between 2 (or more) servers to handle the huge increase in demand?
b) Create the new module as a seperate database that runs on a seperate server?
If B is the best option (I am thinking it is not) is there a way to write easy and efficient queries and views of the 2 databases as 1.
Thanks
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Jul 20, 2005
I will be doing some performance testing on financial application nextmonth. Without going into a lot of details, I suspect I will have apotential bottleneck when writing to the log file.My hardware setup is a quad 2.8 Xeon Dell server direct attached to aDELL/EMC CX200 (Fibre channel array with 10 X 30something GB, 15,000rpm drives, with about 1GB of memory on the array for caching.This is a benchmark environment, so I am not concerned about loosingdata. I am looking for a little guidance on using raid (0 or 10)and/or file groups to spread IO to db objects (log file(s), data,indexes, tempdb, etc). I have read about and played with file groupsenough to know that SQL server does some level of load balancingacross file, but am unclear it is in parallel or serialized.Common wisdom seems to be to separate data, non-clustered index, logs,and tempdb onto separate files, but I am unclear on how to make bestuse of the high-speed disk array. I'd greatly appreciate opinions onwhich would perform better; one file on a stripe set of N drives (raid0 or 10), N files in a file group placed on N (non-striped) drives, ora combination of the two? Is the answer the same for both log and data(or index) files?Thanks,-Bernie
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Nov 6, 2006
i have a table with 10,000,000,000 records and i need Select and Insert many
records from or into this table in less than one second.
i can't buy a very expensive hardware(Server) for this SQL Server 2005
but i can buy many medium price hardwares(Servers) for this SQL Server
2005.
how can i distribute or cluster this table between many hardwares(Servers)?
note: i have few users (maximum 5 users) for my database but i have a
very large table and Sql server 2005 server need to respond to this
users in less than 1 second.
i want to distribute this huge table in seperated hardwares. becuase i
can't buy a very expensive hardware from my server but i can buy many
medium price hardware for my server.
note: i need this: when a user run a select query on this huge table
his/her request distribute between many hardwares not one hardware.
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