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In Memory Optimized Tables SQL 2014

    In Memory Optimized Tables SQL 2014

What are Memory Optimized Tables in SQL Server?
Memory Optimized tables are newly introduced in SQL Server and they are fully ACID compliant data storage structures, which stores the data mainly within the system memory(RAM), allowing users to access data very very quickly compared to the stored File system stored Table.

The transactional consistency is maintained in Memory Optimized Tables in SQL Server 2014 by:

In-Memory Row Versioning:
Memory Optimized tables maintains various versions of the same row dispersed over the in-memory data structure of the table which allows the reading and writing of the rows concurrently without transactional inconsistency issues. It is equivalent to SNAPSHOT ISOLATION LEVEL where … Read the rest

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What is SQL Server Health Check? Why is it important?

What is SQL Server Health Check? Why is it important?

A SQL Server health check looks at all aspects of your SQL Server environment in terms of best practices in the areas of Performance, Configuration, Security, Disaster Recovery and the ability of your environment to scale to projected future loads.

With a SQL Server Health Check, one should make a report of our findings and recomendation/solutions.

Fixing the Problems
You may choose to have us fix some or all of the problems found by the SQL Server health check or
you may prefer to have your own team to discuss and work through them.

What are the important aspects of SQL Server Health Check?
SQL Server Disaster Recovery Plan:
1.Design … Read the rest

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Memory configuration and using AWE /3GB /USERVA in SQL Servers 2005/2008 in 64 bit and 32 bit installations

In this post we will discuss various memory configurations in 64 bit and 32 bit installations of SQL Server:

In 32 bit OS systems, AWE was used for addressing the issue to access the memory above the 32 bit process limitation. It also enables SQL Server to lock pages in memory.
Servers that are x86 or 32 bit have a VAS region that is 2^32 in size or roughly speaking 4 GB. This is by default split 50/50 into kernel mode and user mode VAS regions. To work around this limitation, the /3GB and /USERVA boot.ini switches can be used to change the user/kernel mode proportions from 50/50 to 75/25 (/3GB) or a user defined proportion (/USERVA) to allow SQL … Read the rest