Optimizing

Hi,
In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a Optimizations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt of free space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
Essentially yes.

Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Marc305" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a
Optimizations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt
of free space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank You

Optimizing

Hi,
In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a Optimiz
ations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt of free
space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank YouEssentially yes.
Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Marc305" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C49CF28B-DD22-4EB4-AFFB-EA22FFE83838@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a
Optimizations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt
of free space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank You

Optimizing

Hi
In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a Optimizations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt of free space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables
Any help would be appreciated
Thank YouEssentially yes.
Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Marc305" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C49CF28B-DD22-4EB4-AFFB-EA22FFE83838@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> In Enterprise Manager 2000 as part of a Maintenance Plan. There is a
Optimizations Tab. Running this and choosing Reorganize data w/original amt
of free space, the same as Running dbreindex on the tables?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank You

Optimize RAID configuration

I am setting up a server that will be a dedicated database server. I don't have much flexibility in choosing a server, and the servers we use are limited to six disk drives. There will be only one user database on the server, aside from the system databases. Everything I have read indicates it is better to place the transaction log file on a separate disk array from the data files. I could put the transaction log file on a mirrored disk array (RAID 1) and then put the data file on a RAID 10 array of four disks. But where would I put the OS and SQL binaries? The application in question is fairly write-intensive, and does not perform well in a RAID 5 array. In the past, we placed everything (OS, data, logs, etc.) on the same RAID 5 array. It is apparent that this configuration is not going to work, or at least it won't scale very well. My questions are as follows:

1) How much write activity is generated by the transaction log? Will I see a tangible performance benefit by separating the log file onto its own physical array?

2) What would be the optimal RAID configuration for the above scenario, while limited to six drives?

3) What would be the optimal RAID configuration if I had more that one user database on the same server, with the six drive limit?

Any help would be very much appreciated.As a GENERAL rule, you want to seperate your log files, databases and indexs from each other. In your case I doubt if you will have much oppertunity to optimize your hardware.

IMnsHO, I would put the os, binaries and logs on the RAID 1 drives and db et all on the RAID 10 drives. I suspect you have a single channel controler so watch disk I/O as I would bet you will have a bottleneck here. If you have a dual channel controler put the RAID 1 on one channel and the RAID 10 on the other.

Your question...

1) Every write to a table will generate a write to the transaction log even in Simple mode! Putting your logs on a RAID one drive will increase performance on a write intensive db.

2) It is more a question of RAID configuration and controler configuration. Unless you have a dual channel controler you aren't going to see much of a performance increase. Switching from RAID 5 to RAID 1 & 10 will help. Make sure the data cache on the controler is optimized for more writes than reads.

3) Get a three channel controler, channel one for the RAID 1 drives, channel two and three for the RAID 10 drives, mirror across the two channels so the strip stays on one channel.