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Tips for using SQL Server 2017 file and filegroups

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Tips for using SQL Server 2017 file and filegroups Consider placing the log files on other physical disk arrays than those with the data files. Because logging is usually more write-intensive, it’s important that the disk arrays containing the SQL Server log files have sufficient disk I/O performance. Do not create many data and log files on the same physical...

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Tips for using backup and restore in SQL Server 2017

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Tips for using backup and restore in SQL Server 2017 Consider storing the backup files on physical disks on another computer. Storing the backup files on the same computer where the databases stores may cause problem with restoring databases if the physical disks were damaged. Try to separate your database to different files and filegroups to backing up only appropriate...

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Tips for using bulk copy in SQL Server 2017

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Tips for using bulk copy in SQL Server 2017 Consider using BULK INSERT to insert data from files stored in Azure Blob storage. Beginning with SQL Server 2017 BULK INSERT command enable access data directly from a file specified as CSV format, and from files stored in Azure Blob storage through the new BLOB_STORAGE option of EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE. Use...

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Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2017

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Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2017 Create a user-defined filegroup and create some tables in it to run maintenance tasks (backups, DBCC, update statistics, and so on) against these tables. You can place a table in its own filegroup and can backup and restore only this table. So you can group user objects with similar maintenance...

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