Hello,
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
hi, 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
What si capacity planning?
Where can i find more stuff on it?
Hi Everybody,
Can anybody explain me, what is Capacity Planning and what is Load Balancing?
tks in advance
sri
Does 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.
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Hi,
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?
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I 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
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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.
Hello,
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.
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Note: I am not asking about the actual SQL Server 2005 but the express edition!
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RAID 1:
2 disks RAID 1 for OS and BINS
2 disks RAID 1 for Backups.
RAID 10
4 disks RAID 10 for data
4 disks RAID 10 for log
4 disks RAID 10 for TEMPDB
Should i put the master and other system database on RAID 10 along with TempDB.
Or what else a guru fellow will advise in above setup.
thanks,
Hi all,
We are going to setup a new server,so for that How to Capacity Plan for CPU and Memory ,Hard Disk for a new SQL SERVER Setup.
Is there any specific criteria for capacity planning ?in which base we should do this part.
Thanks
Kumar
We have a project already developed iusing VS 2003 Enterprise architect edition using sql server 2000(have lots of table and stored procs etc.)
Now planning to switch to Sql server 2005 are there any issues associated with the switch.
I mean front end programming wise asp.net and vb.net front end codes do they work straight away or need to make any changes to all the front end codes, we are using datasets, data readers calling stored procs and also using lot of hash tables and XML object to make bulk loads to sql server via sqlxml3.0 sp3.
Please help thank you very much for the information.
My SQL server disk space is getting close to full capacity which is causing certain reports that we run via the SQL server to time out because I don't think there is enough space on the server.
Any tips on cleaning out a SQL server? Are there any folders that can absolutely be deleted to clear space? I know on a local computer that the %temp% folder can be cleaned out. I know when dealing with servers you do not want to make to many changes because it can cause major problems down the road.
I have a table with a column Capacity which is char(10) and gets populated from user files. I want to check records which have negative Capacity value. So i first checked if its numeric and then for negative.
select * from table WHERE ISNUMERIC(LTRIM(RTRIM(Capacity))) = 1 AND Capacity < 0
BUT still it checks for char fields too giving errors like - Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'asdf ' to data type int.
Parameter
Access 2000/XP
SQL Server 7.0
SQL Server 2000
MSDE 2000
Number of instances per server
n/a
n/a
16
16
Number of databases per instance / server
n/a
32,767
32,767
32,767
Number of objects per database
32,768
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
Number of users per database
n/a
16,379
16,379
16,379
Number of roles per database
n/a
16,367
16,367
16,367
Overall size of database (excluding logs)
2 GB
1,048,516 TB
1,048,516 TB
2 GB
Number of columns per table
255
1024
1024
1024
Number of rows per table
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
Number of bytes per row
(Excluding TEXT/MEMO/IMAGE/OLE)
2 KB
8 KB
8 KB
8 KB
Number of columns per query
255
4,096
4,096
4,096
Number of tables per query
32
256
256
256
Size of procedure / query
64 KB
250 MB
250 MB
250 MB
Number of input params per procedure / query
199
1,024
2,100
2,100
Size of SQL statement / batch
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
Depth of subquery nesting
50
32
32
32
Number of indexes per table
32
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
Number of columns per index
10
16
16
16
Number of characters per object name
64
128
128
128
Number of concurrent user connections
255
32,767
32,767
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We are building a new site using ASP and SQL as the backend.
Any idea where I can find some information about best practices to coonect the 2.
I was thinking about IIS on a DMZ with port 80 only open and the SQL inside the internal network and open port 1443 between them.
Any ideas will be welcomed.
Thank you
Oren Levy
Hi everyone,
Is there a version of MS SQL Server 2000 upon which one can practice writing code? I want to do so on my personal PC at home. Thanks.
ddave
An IT dept. I have been consulting with has started to reboot SQL server every night. They are saying that this is the best practices. I would like to know if anyone has any other ideas on this subject. What is the best practices for how often a SQL server should be rebooted, daily, weekly, monthly ... ?
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Hi There,
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Thanks a lot!!
I 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.
(I tried to search for answers before posting, but had difficulty)
I have read in Microsoft forums that you "can" install SQL 2005 as an instance on a SQL 2000 server (not clustered.)
My decade+ of experience tells me it would be a bad idea, I'd expect the next service pack to fail or some other un-expected result. This is for a high availability application where the vendor requires SQL2000, and our custom coders want to use some SQL2005 featuers.
Does anyone have experience with two instances of different versions in a high visibility production system?
Does anyone have some points I could use to argue against this other than me sounding paranoid.
Thanks!
Hi 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
Hi 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
Hi 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.
Hi 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..
Hi!
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!
Hi 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
Hi 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
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