PASS Community Summit 2008: Program Sessions (Database Administration)

Before deploying SQL Server on a new server platform, or a new release of SQL Server on an existing hardware platform, you must do due diligence to find out how SQL Server performs on that platform. With new builds of SQL Server being released at a regular pace and new processors and servers being introduced at a dazzling speed, this is not a one-time exercise but needs to be done regularly and systematically. This session draws on the presenter's extensive experience in certifying and benchmarking SQL Server on hardware platforms, and covers a general engineering methodology that you can use to deliver that due diligence with useful information for hardware platform decision making. The session will also review the general architecture of commodity servers, and discuss benchmark tools you can use to help collect empirical data points with respect to running SQL Server on a hardware platform.

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