January 2021
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
9h 20m
English
This chapter covers storage from the SQL Server point of view, and although other factors such as availability and recoverability play a very important role in selecting and configuring storage, we focus mostly on performance. Disk is traditionally the slowest component in a database system, so tuning storage for performance is essential and usually comes in two high-level areas: directly tuning the storage and tuning the components to make efficient use of the storage. The first area refers to tuning and configuring the storage hardware itself, while the second one relates ...
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