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Wednesday, 9 December 2015

SQL Server Installation Best Practices

The below are the few points need to be consider to follow the best practices .


1. Dedicate separate physical server to run only single instance of SQL Server and don't install any other applications .

2. For best performance turn off any operating system services that aren't needed .

3. Do not install SQL Server on a domain controller .

4. Don't use NTFS data file encryption and compression on SQL Server database and log files .

5. Install all the features and stop the services for the features  which are not needed such as Reporting Services , Analysis Services , Notification services etc hence It will  save time to reinstall the required features again .

6. For best I/O performance , locate the data files (.mdf) and log files (.ldf) on separate arrays on your server to avoid conflicts between reads and writes .
    
( mdf file is recommended to be on RAID 5 , ldf is recommended to be on RAID 10 )

7. If temp db used heavily then put it on its own separate array .




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