SQL SERVER – Using “High Performance” Power Plan for SQL Server

A lot of times, I have seen DBA’s and administrators have their own startup tasks that they perform when rebuilding or bringing a new server online. Some of these practices are powerful and are mean to enhance performance of the box that you have bought. Recently, I was at a customer location looking at what a typical Admin was doing and this step of his caught my attention. I couldn’t stop myself from blogging this because it was a simple, powerful and yet less appreciated setting available on the Server. Let us learn Power Plan for SQL Server.

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SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning – Is It Really A Top Skills for a SQL Server Consultant? – Notes from the Field #059

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 59th episode of Notes from the Field series. I get over 100 emails everyday and out of 100 emails nearly 90 of them are really related to performance tuning. The emails I get is from various different IT professionals. There are quite a few application developers…
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