I always love to get my hands dirty with new features of SQL Server. I was exploring SQL Server on Linux, and at a point, I had to check the operating system details of the Linux system. Being lazy to figure out Linux OS command to check the operating system details, I started figuring out […]
SQL SERVER DATABASE FILES WISE I/O LATENCY PART#2
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Since the DMF sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats shows cumulative I/O statistics value for the database files, you can’t just use the DMF to shoot a conclusion that the database files are experiencing high latency issue. The reason is the overall aggregation will mask spikes of poor performance. It is recommended to capture the latency data over a period […]
SQL Server Database Files Wise I/O Latency Details PART#1
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One of the real-world I/O troubleshooting problems is – If you have your databases spread across multiple LUNs and you want to find out which database files are experiencing high latency issues and driving the most I/Os to storage subsystem using performance counter (Avg. Disk sec/Read & Avg. Disk sec/Write). The counter doesn’t help you to identify […]