Capacity Planning !!!
May 28, 2001Hi Everybody,
Can anybody explain me, what is Capacity Planning and what is Load Balancing?
tks in advance
sri
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Capacity Planning
Nov 4, 2000hi, can any one tell me what is the meaning of capacity planning and where do I get info about it,and how does this help me in sql server admin role
thanks
Ahmed
Capacity Planning
Dec 11, 2000What si capacity planning?
Where can i find more stuff on it?
Database Capacity Planning
Sep 27, 2001Does any one know where I can locate a document or template for database capacity planning on the web? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSQL Server Capacity Planning Best Practice
Aug 8, 2007Hello,
I have been working on SQL Server Capacity Planning for a few weeks now and have gathered a lot of materials, but non of thes materials contain recommended best practices on SQL Server capacity planning and also they do not contain operational guidelines.
I would be glad if anyone can recommend a website or book that contain information on SQL Server Capacity Planning Best Practices.
Thanks,
Jide
SQL 2012 :: TempDB - Tlog Sizing / Capacity Planning?
Nov 18, 2014I am in the process of formulating recommendations with respect to the purchase of additional storage for our current SQL 2012 SharePoint (2013) instance. My recommendation is to purchase separate storage (i.e, 15k disks) for the TempDB and Tlogs respectively (two sets of raid 10 disks). Currently, this server is hosting several instances, including SP, using two arrays (one for database and the other for Tlogs).
I am attempting to find information/recommendations on how to go about projecting the amount of storage for each of these while factoring in for growth.
Additional Details:
how to best formulate a reasonable estimate. Our largest content database belongs to IT and is currently ~80GB. That said, this is currently an outlier. The remaining content databases are less than 10GB (most are less than 2-3 GB). However, SharePoint will be used for digital document imaging in addition to, eventually, replacing file shares as our primary document storage medium once we roll it out.
Our current tempDB is ~400MB, but the instance was recently started a few days ago, as we had to failover to our backup server for hardware maintenance. I do not have any historical data on TempDB growth at this time. Also, I don't know how useful this would be given we have not fully deployed yet.
DR Planning Help....
Mar 8, 2007I was told that my company is thinking about inplementing a "backup" server for out content loading server (aka load server)... this server loads files from several companies and then replicates the data out to our production environment to be seen. This server has serveral DTS/IS packages that do all this data movement and manipulation... I am not too up to date on technology for what they are asking so I thought I would ask here for some recommendations to head in the right direction...
I am not sure if clustering will work or maybe mirroring the database...
The server now is a publisher so the backup server would have to pick up if the #1 failed and then give command back to #1 once it is good... this is the part I have no idea about...
The #2 server would not have to really do anything but keep its data up to date unless #1 fails so you could say it would be fine to be a passive server...
Any ideas on what direction I should look into???
Thanks ahead of time.
Sql Server Capacity
May 13, 2005Hi,
any1 know how many records can be stored in a table in sql server? is there any way to maximise it? will table capacity (number of records) vary due to our table stucture or database structure? is there any documentation bout tis?
Cheerslife's Ng
Planning To Install SP3
Jan 8, 2001Hi All
I am planning to install SP3, anyone have suggestion before installation what are the precaution I need to take. please post your comments. Thanks in advance.
Thanks
Regards
Leong
Replication Planning
Feb 8, 2001Hi every body,
my company wants implements transactional replication. We have three servers one in chicago(production)
second server in chicago, third server in kansas city.Can give me plan for implementing the replication.
Thanks
Maximum Capacity Of A ROW!
Nov 29, 2000Hi Everybody,
Our development team is doing some stuff in ASP. They are interested only in char and varchar
data types. They clearly told us that they are not going with text and image data types.
Is it possible to make a row size behind 8060 bytes in a table without text and image data types?.
tks in advance,
Sri.
New SQLSERVER Planning?
May 26, 2004Hi Guys,
We are planning for a new SQLSERVER for one of our application. The database will receive around 58 million events/year is roughly 160,000 messages/day
Making the assumption that an average message size is 2K. The messages comes to database through edi processes.
Any suggestion about database server configuration, and any other steps that need to be take care of before even thinking about creating a database??
help is greatly appericated..
Capacity Plan
Mar 9, 2000Hi!
I got two questions and please forward all your suggestions:
1: Is there any document for capacity planning of SQL Server 6.5 database?
2: Is there a way to find out total number of transactions per day in SQL Server?
Thanks in advance!
Capacity Of SQL Server
Feb 20, 2001I have a flat file with about 2000 fields and 2 million records. I can reorganize the data any way I want and have a unique id field for each record.
Is SQL Server a suitable solution do you think, and also how many fields will a table take (I think access takes 255)?
If you think there may be a better solution for me to look at I would be glad to hear.
Thanks for any help
Capacity Planing
Feb 8, 2007Hi All,
We need to do capacity planning for our SQL server database server. Capacity planning is interms of CPU usage, Memory usage and disk usage.
Can anybody help me with how should I start and what are the guidlines to do it? I have started executing perfmon utility with some counters but still not sure what to do next. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sachin
Don't sit back because of failure. It will come back to check if you still available. -- Binu
Planning A Database
Aug 7, 2007Hi all,
I'm very new to SQL and am learning via books and whilst on the job. I'm putting together my logical design at the moment and was wondering if anyone could suggest any websites that might give me an insight into the best way to go about this in an effective manner.
TIA,
SamuelT
Project Planning
Feb 13, 2007HelloBased on three tables (Projects, Tasks and UserCalender) I would liketo work out the total amount of available resources (UserCalendertable contains a entry for each user for each day, day being 7.5hours) and total required effort (sum of Tasks.EstimateLikley) splitover 12 months.For example:Jan:Available Resources: (4 Users, 7.5 hours per day, 5 working days perweek, 23 Working days in Jan) = (23 x 4) = (92 * 7.5) = 690 AvailableHoursRequired Resources:Project Start Date: 1/1/2007Project End Date: 1/6/2007Total Required effort (Sum of Tasks.Hours for above project): 500Hours Average over 6 months = 83.33 Hours per month, so in Jan I needto deduct 83.33 from 600 = 516.67 Hours.etcHow could I do this, I have tried several ways but finding it hard.Thanks
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Jun 13, 2007I've read a few posts on the stored procedure vs dynamic sql debate. I ran a few performance test for myself and it appears to be a wash.
Given that, I'm leaning toward dynamic sql mostly because it would mean one fewer place to have things.
But, before we go that route we wanted to ask the question:
Is there any compelling reason why we shouldn't abandon all of our stored procs and just write the SQL inside inside our functions in our business layer (essentially our data access layer)?
Or, is it just preference these days?
I was leaning toward procs, but I have to admit it would be nice not to have to keep up with all of them per all of our functions that call them.
Thanks,
Ron
Planning A Replication
Aug 5, 2006hallo
we have a sql2000 in the headquarter, and 3 new remote branches opening in few weeks with no sql servers installed yet.
We plan to setup a merge replica. The headquarter will have the highest activity on the replicated tables.
Shall we use all SQL2000 in the remote branches? Or could we use SQL2005, using a 2005 as a publisher and distributor?
TIA
SSIS Capacity
Sep 12, 2007Hi ,
We need to upload over 100 GB file into SQL Server using SSIS. I want to know whether SSIS can upload such huge file in to a table. If yes, How ?. If not is there any work around to achieve this.
Expecting some solutions ASAP
Thanks
Regards
Pandithurai K
Singapore
Database Capacity
Jun 26, 2007Hi,
I€™m working in a DWH project the source system have data from passed 30 years and the total number of records from the source system is 10 million.
I€™m need to do the estimation for the data base for the up coming 10 years of data.
As I can predict that the 30 year of data is 10 million then expected data for 10 years would not be more then 3 million.
The ETL tool I€™m using is SQL Server Integration services and the reporting tool is Business Objects.
Can any one guide me on the implementation plan, mean memory taken for ETL jobs (As SSIS use large amount of memory) database and business objects.
Planning Ahead W/ SQL Server...
Jan 3, 2004With the current web app that I am writing, I am starting to plan ahead to the scalability problems that I am planning on encountering with the number of users that I may have...
My hosting plan now allows for a 50MB SQL Server database, but, I know that will not last long, each user will be using 3-5MB each of the database, so I am going to outgrow my space fast.
Would looking into (until i have enough subscribers to get a dedicated host), SQL Hosting be a good idea? Atleast to start off with something like http://www.alentus.com/hosting/sqlserver.asp ?
But then again, would a SQL Database growing to large get bad? Within a few years, i expect to have at max 5,000 users, so that could grow to a 25GB database... with millions of rows.
Would breaking it up into smaller databases for each N amount of users be a wise idea? Or would it not really matter?
Any help is much appreciated
Happy New Year
Harold.
Need Advice On Planning For DataBase Changes
May 16, 2005Hello;
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Jul 10, 2001Hey - I know that xp_fixeddrives gives me the amount of free space on a drive. Is there a similar (xp) function that will give me the capacity of a drive??? Any help is appreciated. Even if you can just point me in the right direction. Thanx in advance. Billy
View 1 Replies View RelatedLicense Information And Db Capacity
Mar 27, 2007hello,
I just completed my graduation and eventually i got a proposal from a company to develop a software for database management. I have some doubts about licensing the back-end database. My doubts are:
1. If I'm using Sql Server as the backend and the .sql file placed on the server where this .sql file will be accessed by about 20 clients, will the customer (company) have to purchase a license for the sql server? If yes, how this can be done? Does the company have to purchase a license for each client and server for accessing contents of the .sql file? Actually, there will be only 1 server and abt 20 clients.
2. Does the developer need to purchase a seperate license for distributing the .sql file?
3. Also, wat is the maximum capacity of an sql database size? I'm asking this because as per my requirements, the company will be using the database at a rate of 1GB per month. So, by end of a year, it will be 12 GB.
NOTE: No Sql Server Software will be installed on client machines.
In brief, my doubt is: Do we need license for reading and writting to .mdb or .sql file contents and do we need seperate license for distributing them?
Please, somebody can help me for the licensing information and also for the database size?
Thank you.
Planning For Creating A Database
Nov 16, 2007Dear Experts,
now i was allotted as a complete DBA for one client and i've to take care from the creation itself.
we've understood the data will be around 20 GB initially, and from there onwards, 1GB data will grow in the database. total number of tables are around 1400. and we have primary key on each table.
Now you Experts, please guide me that how can i take the Fragmentation levels for best performance? or i need to give you more information regarding that.....
i need your valuble suggesions and guidence
Planning Multiple Queries
Dec 2, 2005I'm cleaning data which involves updating ~12 million rows with threedifferent models, progressively. First clean values using the modelwith finest granularity, then the remainder with the next model,finally what's left using the last model. The first model sets ~1/2 ofthe rows, the second ~1/4, the third ~1/5, and the remaining 5% don'tget updated.It's something like this:UPDATE t SET value=value*m.AdjustmentFactor, updateFlag='updated'FROM Table t JOIN Models m ON ....WHERE m.ModelID='first model' AND t.updateFlag IS NULLStart with 'first model' then 'second model' etc.I'm wondering what happens if I submit all three queries together, oras three separate submissions, waiting for the one before to complete.If I do them all as one group, the query planner might plan for thesecond and third updates based on the initial distribution of values.However, the first update removes half of the rows from consideration,so it seems to me a new plan should be prepared for the second query,based on the distribution at that time. If I highlight the queries inQuery Analyzer and execute, are all three plans created at thebeginning? Does putting GO between them (which I do) make anydifference?This is SQL Server 2000.Thanks,Jim
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Oct 18, 2007I've done a fair amount of hardware planning for the SQL Server Database Engine. Now I'm doing so for SSRS which I don't have as much experience with. I haven't been able to find much information, especially around RAM capacity and have a few questions. Any responses or pointers to resources are appreciated.
Scenario: 2 load-balanced SSRS 2005 App servers with an independent back-end SQL DB for the config database. Total userbase is about 2000 (not simultaneous), and I'm still trying to get statistics for per hour requests. May also install multiple SSRS instances on these boxes with one of them in Sharepoint Integrated mode (don't anticipate high volume here). Load-balancing is for both performance and availability goals.
I'm looking at the SSRS App servers only and am analyzing amount of RAM, 32 vs 64 bit, and perhaps CPU core count.
1. Does 32-bit Enterprise SSRS benefit from more than 4 GB on a server, using AWE or other memory extension? Or is anything > 4 GB unused at 32 bit?
2. Are there material benefits to going to 64-bit OS / SSRS and increasing memory above 4 GB? (does IIS handle this?), Perhaps to 8 or 16 GB.
3. The boxes will be 2-way, dual core, with possibility of going to quad core. Is increasing core count a better use of budget than increasing RAM above 4 GB?
I've read the white paper, "Planning for Scalability and Performance with Reporting Services" (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/pspsqlrs.mspx) which briefly (but incompletely) discusses 32 vs 64 bit, and really doesn't touch on RAM at all.
Thanks for any pointers,
Scott
Licensing Information And Db Capacity
Mar 27, 2007hello,
I dnt know if this is the right place. I'm sorry for that.
WEll, I just completed my graduation and eventually i got a proposal from a company to develop a software for database management. I have some doubts about licensing the back-end database. My doubts are:
1. If I'm using Sql Server as the backend and the .sql file placed on the server where this .sql file will be accessed by about 20 clients, will the customer (company) have to purchase a license for the sql server? If yes, how this can be done? Does the company have to purchase a license for each client and server for accessing contents of the .sql file? Actually, there will be only 1 server and abt 20 clients.
2. Does the developer need to purchase a seperate license for distributing the .sql file?
3. Also, wat is the maximum capacity of an sql database size? I'm asking this because as per my requirements, the company will be using the database at a rate of 1GB per month. So, by end of a year, it will be 12 GB.
NOTE: No Sql Server Software will be installed on client machines.
In brief, my doubt is: Do we need license for reading and writting to .mdb or .sql file contents and do we need seperate license for distributing them?
Please, somebody can help me for the licensing information and also for the database size? the database will be also used for remote access.
Thank you.
MS SQL - Professional Assistance Required Concerning Capacity.
Oct 4, 2004Hi there,
We are currently developing a E-Com research site where subscribed members can conduct market research. The web site is developed and ready to go, however we are undecided what is required on the Database side and could do with some of your expert help.
Users will be conducting research on our MS SQL database. The database holds every product sale made by a select number of consumer good companies. The database holds 12 million records at any one time, however overall the database is very static and is not updated online. We intend to only store 1 months data, therefore on a weekly basis we delete old & add new records.
We are offering three categories of searches on the DB.
1. By Seller
2. By Category (i.e. Hair Care, Laundry etc)
3. By Sale.
The first two searches are not performance intensive as they are compiled and stored in the database - therefore no need for calculation online. Our main concern is the 3rd report. This report is where we allow the user to search for a specified search string. Therefore in the main table that holds all the sales, we have a full-text index for the field "Product Description".
What we are unclear on is the Capacity requirements regarding providing such functionality. I.e What server do we require?
We have researched many articles and have absorbed all the information regarding multiple disk controllers, lots of memory etc.. etc.. However we still have not been able to obtain an idea on what Server would serve our purposes. For example: would the following server do the job?
2 x 2.4Ghz Hyper-threading Xeon CPUs with 512Kb Cache and 400MHz System Bus
2GB Samsung RAMBUS 800-45 Memory (RIMMS / RDRAM)
A lot is determined by the usage, i.e. how many queries are executed per minute etc. At present we do not have a clear idea on the number of users. However we are not truely concerned about this as the 3rd report needs to execute and return within a short period of time. That is our main concern.
Therefore our question is as follows: If you were going to host a database that consisted of 12 million records & full-text indexing which had to be queried in a few seconds, what would you purchase?
We ask you to consider that funds are extremely tight and although the new latest server may do the job, it is most likely out of our budget. We are looking for the most cost effective solution but still statisfying the purpose.
Kind regards
Angus
Planning Database On SQL Server 2005
Apr 30, 2007Hello,
We are establishing a database server for our product suite containg 14 products- these products is basically intended to be used by CAs and Accountants.
my databaseserver will have 14 databases-
4 are very small, 4 are complex and 6 are Very complex- there is a close intraction between all these databases.
at any time there will be around 500 users using these products but since these products are seasonal there is a chance that all 500 users are connected to one database only.(but there is also a possiblity that load is equally distributed on all the databases)
My product will run on intranat.
My requirement is:
1. What is best server configuration for hosting such type of database.(sqlserver 2005)
2. How many concurrent users sqlserver supports(MSaccess supports 15 concurrent users)
3. I want that if user has license for 10 users my Database should bear load of only 10 user.
Sql Server Sizing Planning - Architecture Help
Jul 20, 2005HiI joined a project where 100,000 rows were added everyday. Now due toadditional customers the expectation is 2 million reocrds/day ie 10 GB worthof textfiles. We have to estimate the hard disk, memory, # of CPUs etc.Wewill have one yearworth of data in the db. Rest will be in tapes etc.We will be using WIN2000, SQL Server2000.- Any comparable server sizing willbe appreciated.1. Tohandle every day load, I thought that we will have a table for each day(pre created in the database )and have a view with union all selectingfromall these 365 tables. (This is the only way to partition in MSSQL Serverright?).2. The requirement is to populate datawarehouse tables with all the data.However there will be only inserts mostly but there can be updates too whichhappenned in the past 12 days.Hence we have to use the data from the last12 days and massage it etc and populate into datawarehouse tables.How can I do this so that I will have the datawarehouse tables with n-12days of data and I will alwys add the last 12 days data to it.Do you have any suggestions?Ragu
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Mar 29, 2007I cannot think of any reason, in our environment, why I would recover the model database. Change framework has all databases coming from DEV & QA before landing on PROD. We have never used the model database as framework of new databases either.
So, if I discontinued backup of the database, what is my recovery method if it become corrupt? Since mine is not used, can I simply copy it from another server?