SQLAuthority News – Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and configuration – SharePoint Server 2010

Just a day ago, I was asked how do you plan SQL Server Storage Capacity. Here is the excellent article published by Microsoft regarding SQL Server capacity planning for SharePoint 2010. This article touches all the vital areas of this subject. Here are the bullet points for the same. Gather…
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SQL SERVER – Find Most Expensive Queries Using DMV

The title of this post is what I can express here for this quick blog post. I was asked in recent query tuning consultation project, if I can share my script which I use to figure out which is the most expensive queries are running on SQL Server. This script is very basic and very simple, there are many different versions are available online. This basic script does do the job which I expect to do – find out the most expensive queries in SQL Server Box.

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SQL SERVER – Four Posts on Removing the Bookmark Lookup – Key Lookup

Recently, I have observed that not many people have proper understanding of what is bookmark lookup or key lookup. Increasing numbers of the questions tells me that this is something that developers encounter every single day, but have no idea how to deal with. I have previously written three posts…
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