Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2019 Avoid using SQL Server Management Studio to maintain Very Large Databases. Because using SQL Server Management Studio is very resource expensive, use stored procedures and Transact-SQL statements, in this case. For heavily accessed table with text/image columns, place this table in one filegroup and place text/image columns in a different...
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Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2016
Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2016 Try to create as many database files, as there are physical disk arrays so that you have one file per disk array. This will improve performance, because when a table is accessed sequentially, a separate thread is created for each file on each disk array in order to read the...
Some tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2014
Some tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2014 Consider using table and index partitioning. In SQL Server 2014 tables and indexes can be divided into partitions based on value ranges. By using partitioning, you can transfer blocks of data within the database schema more efficiently because maintenance operations can be performed against single partitions instead of an...
Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2012
Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2012 Use distributed partitioned views to partition tables horizontally across multiple servers. By using distributed partitioned views you can greatly improve the very large database performance. Turn off the "automatically grow file" and "auto shrink" options for your very large database. Autogrowing and autoshrinking result in some performance degradation, therefore you...