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Tuning the Performance of Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008

Authors: Mike Ruthruff, Sanjay Mishra Contributor: Steve Schmidt Technical Reviewers: Kevin Farlee, Sunil Agarwal, Burzin Patel, Lindsey Allen, Mark Souza...

Posted Apr 21 2008, 03:37 PM by SanjayMishra with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Database, Availability, Performance, I/O, SQL Server, backup, Backup Compression

How many files should a database have? - Part 1: OLAP workloads

The question in the title of this blog comes up a lot. This Tech Note described tradeoffs for file allocation in OLAP systems...

Posted Mar 07 2008, 11:28 AM by tkejser with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: I/O, OLAP, SQL Server, Configuration

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