The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to as ...

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Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of years ...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...