It is important to optimize TempDB for good performance. In particular, I am focusing on how to allocate files. TempDB is a unique database in several ways. The ones most relevant to this discussion are: · It is often one of the busiest...

There are several types of fragmentation that affect SQL Server, all of which have the potential to cause performance problems. 1) At the disk/OS level individual files can become fragmented due to growth over time. This can be addressed by a defragmentation...

You may receive the error "The cluster either has not been verified or there are errors or failures in the verification report" while installing a SQL Server clustered installation on Windows 2008. When see this error you must fix the underlying error...

The setup files for SQL Server look pretty much the same for all editions. If you saved the files somewhere but didn't indicate in your directory name or a readme file which edition they are for, how do you tell the edition? Running setup doesn't necessarily...