Server Hardware

I’ve got some money for an upgrade, what should I upgrade?

So you are going along your normal day, and your boss comes up to you and tells you “We’ve got a few thousand bucks left in this years budget, what would you like to upgrade?”  Assuming that new 26″ monitors for your workstation are out of the question, the boss is probably talking about a server upgrade here so lets see what we can do. Continued »

Design the server to fit the database, don’t cram the database into the server

I am so sick and tired of people posting questions on various forums along the lines of “We just bought a Some brand and model of server and it has n hard drives in it.  How should I setup the database on these drives?” Continued »

Optimal Database Setup Hardware Guide

A little while back I published an article on Enterprise IT Planet called “Optimal Database Setup Hardware Guide“.  In this article I talk about some key points that should be looked at when building a new SQL Server.

Denny