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wkm1925
Posting Yak Master

207 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 01:23:48
Hi,

My current system as follow
1. Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition 32 bit
2. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 32 bit
3. Strengthen by RAID 5
4. SQL Server now hosting 5 different application database
5. All DBs resided in SAN (connected via high speed fiber channel)

My current problem as follow
1. At this level, SQL Server looks have an extra overhead that hurts performance. Transactional activities which usualy requiring few seconds now requiring few minutes and this is unreasonably slow from user experience perspective.

Simptom
1. In monitor performance, SQL Disk average queue length sometimes hit to 100%

My question is,
1. Before upgrade the server, Windows Server, SQL Server, what steps need to be taken
2. As a result, we will know this is because of the server, Windows Server and SQL Server

Need advice

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 02:21:43
Optimise queries.

If they cannot be optimised any better, and performance is still slow, improve hardware or upgrade to newer version.

Optimizing queries will save you CPU forever. Throwing hardware at the problem is something you will have to keep doing .... hence Optimise is my first choice.
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pphillips001
Starting Member

23 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 04:32:38
Check your indexing, make sure the queries utilise Index Seeks rather than table scans.

Also - check your database isolation level. One of our databases nearly doubled in speed when we switched it from optimistic to snapshot.

Make sure you have a separate TempDB files for each processor.

Of course all of the above is relative as all SQL 2005 dbs need to be tailored to suit their own purpose.

Hope this helps.


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wkm1925
Posting Yak Master

207 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 10:14:09
tq. you all my inspiration
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