We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...

As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

Anyone have any experience with RAM drive products for Windows 2000/2003? My plan is to create a RAM drive that we will place a filegroup from SQL Server onto for indexes. It doesn't matter if the ...

SQL Server 2005 automated the process with the CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION command, which lets you automatically map the rows of a table or index into specified partitions based on the values of a ...