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skillile
Posting Yak Master

208 Posts

Posted - 2002-06-30 : 20:21:55
I am considering creating another file ie. (*.ndf) for one of my db's. Right now I am not going to split the files on two different
drives or controllers. I know this is good idea but here is my question. If I create the two files in the same PRIMARY filegroup will this be considered I/O parallelism and will I see performance gains. My understanding is that two threads will be fired on my SELECT requests thus giving possibly better performance. I don't quite understand the performance gains of doing this can anyone point me in the right direction.

Thanks

My DB has many tables one of which is about 1M rows.

setbasedisthetruepath
Used SQL Salesman

992 Posts

Posted - 2002-07-01 : 10:07:18
It depends entirely on your version of SQL Server - 7.0 or 2K. In 7.0, you are correct, SQL Server will issue one I/O op for each file in the filegroup you are accessing. In 2K, the # of asynchronous I/O's is determined dynamically, up to the maximum as specified by sp_configure.

Jonathan Boott, MCDBA
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