I have put together some general guidelines for how you want a server to be delivered to the DBA team for a new SQL Server install. You won’t necessarily use all of them, but consider it a starting point for your SQL Server install standards. Places where it may be common to change the statements areContinue reading “General Hardware/OS/Network Guidelines for a SQL Box”
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Power Saving Options on SQL Server
Power Saving Options on SQL Server Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 have settings for “Power Options”. Windows 2008 R2 has additional power improvements related to “core parking” (temporarily suspending certain cores) and “tick skipping” (extended idle and sleep states). The default power setting for Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 is “Balanced Power” whichContinue reading “Power Saving Options on SQL Server”
