What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

So I have the dreaded C-level user statement/support request to deal with "Everything is slow". No numbers, qualifiers, time, quantitiave measurements of any kind. So working my way in from the ...

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...

I'm seeing a large amount of pagefile useage on my server running 2 SQL server 2005 x64 instances. Server has 24gb of memory, each instance has 8gb allocated to it. Rest of the memory goes to other ...