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]]>Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance
The foundation of database performance is the underlying server hardware and storage subsystem. Even the best designed and optimized database application can be crippled by an inadequate hardware and storage infrastructure. Recent advances in new processors and chipsets, along with improvements in magnetic and SSD storage have dramatically changed the evaluation and selection process compared to the past. Many database professionals struggle to keep up with new technology and often simply let someone else make their hardware selection and sizing decisions. Unfortunately, the DBA usually gets the blame for any performance issues that crop up later. Don’t let this happen to you! This session covers current and upcoming hardware from both Intel and AMD and gives you the tools and resources to make better hardware selection decisions to support SQL Server OLTP workloads.
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]]>Many DBAs do not know much about hardware and storage, while many server and storage administrators don’t know much about SQL Server and the demands that it places on hardware for different types of workloads. Becoming educated and staying up to date is not that difficult, and it will make you a better DBA.
Web Sites and Blogs
Transaction Processing Performance Council
Books
Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting
Pluralsight Courses
SQL Server 2012: Evaluating and Sizing Hardware
SQL Server 2012: Installation and Configuration
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]]>In a change of pace, I will be speaking at an Oracle event in February. It is the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days that goes on from February 11-13, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. This is a pretty large event, with a large list of presentations. I will be doing a hardware presentation, which is actually pretty relevant for SQL Server or for Oracle. Who knows, maybe I can convince some Oracle DBAs to take a look at SQL Server?
Here is my abstract:
Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware
Microsoft made some sweeping changes to their software licensing model for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition, moving from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing. This alters much of the conventional criteria for hardware selection for database servers that will be running SQL Server 2012. This also caused a significant amount of angst in some quarters, with fears of huge increases in SQL Server 2012 licensing costs compared to older versions of the product. This session will cut through the uncertainty and hype to show you how to properly evaluate and choose your database hardware for usage with SQL Server 2012. You will learn how to choose hardware for different types of workloads and how to get the best performance and scalability for the lowest licensing cost.
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