1. Get the Most out of SQL Server Standard Edition
Or How to be a SQL Miser

2. About Diane
Since 1984, I have been in IT. My SQL language and data management experience began in the 90’s, using an Informix database with ARC/Info. I subsequently migrated the data into Oracle, becoming an Oracle Certified DBA. In the early 2000’s I developed data models with ERwin and databases in Oracle and SQL Server for web sites. In 2002 I became a SQL Server DBA for a very busy data center. Currently, as a SQL Server DBA at Economic Research Institute, I manage the database systems in a data center and a co-location site.

3. Why Standard Edition?
SQL Server Enterprise Edition (EE) far more expensive than Standard Edition (SE)
Many small business systems are SE
Some applications delivered with SE

4. Pricing Windows 2008 R2 Edition Cost Standard Edition $1,209
Enterprise Edition
$3,999
SQL Server 2008 R2 Edition
Cost Per Processor
$7,171.00
$27,495.00

5. Planning
Identify which servers and applications might not require EE or are already SE
What features do you really need?
What actually improves performance for SE?

6. EE Features (not in SE) Primarily for very large databases Concurrency
Transaction isolation Level Snapshot
Partitioning
Data Compression
Backup Compression (before R2)
Online Indexing
Clustering more than 2 nodes
Resource Governor

7. Limit Development Features
Do not want to be dependent on EE features
Development
Same configuration as production
Or consciously avoid EE features
Critical to test in SE

8. Maximize Resources - RAM
Windows
Critical
SQL Server
After Windows is optimized

9. Maximize Resources - CPU
64 bit better than 32 bit
Dual core better than single core
Quad core better than dual core

10. Maximize Resources – I/O
Same basic tuning as with EE
Without the EE features

11. System Recommendations
Windows Server 2003 R2+ Enterprise 64 bit
Very important
Higher maximum RAM
SQL Server Standard Edition 64 bit
64 bit is highly recommended over 32 bit

12. Windows 2008 Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit only)
Max
SE 32 bit
SE 64 bit
EE 32 bit
EE 64 bit
RAM
4 GB
32 GB
64 GB
2 TB
CPU 4 8

13. SQL Server 2008 R2
Max SE EE
CPU 8
RAM
64 GB
2 TB
Size
524 PB

14. Shock! n’ AWE!
Windows Standard Edition 32 bit normally limited to 4GB RAM
2 GB for Windows
2 GB for application

15. Windows 32 bit (x86)
Windows 32 bit enterprise or data center edition (not standard edition)
Set PAE (Physical Address Extension)
Edit Boot.ini
Add to the last line: /PAE
Reboot server for PAE to take affect

16. Shock!
The available system RAM changed from 4 GB to 8 GB

17. AWE! SQL Server Set Address Windowing Extensions (AWE)
Increases the available RAM for SQL Server
Adjust the maximum memory in SQL SERVER

18. Enable AWE on 32 bit Enable in SQL Server Management Studio
Right click the server
Properties
Memory
Check mark: Use AWE to allocate memory
Enter:
Minimum server memory (in MB)
Maximum server memory (in MB)
Restart SQL Server service

19. Enable AWE on 32 bit Or use sp_configure
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE GO
sp_configure 'awe enabled', 1

20. Increase SQL Server Memory
exec sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
reconfigure;
exec sp_configure;
exec sp_configure 'min server memory (MB)', 2000;
exec sp_configure 'max server memory (MB)', 6000;
Restart SQL Server service

21. Lock Pages in Memory If you receive the following message
Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) requires the 'lock pages in memory' privilege which is not currently present in the access token of the process.
Set Lock Pages in Memory

22. Lock pages in Memory
In 32 bit, available for SQL Server 2005 and above
in 64 bit available for the following.
Enterprise Edition 2005 and above
Standard Edition 2005 SP4 CU4 and above, with trace flag 845
Standard Edition 2008 SP1 CU2 and above, with trace flag 845
Standard Edition 2008 R2, with trace flag 845

23. Lock pages in Memory Run gpedit.msc. Group Policy
Computer Configuration
Windows Settings
Security Settings
Local Policies
Select User Rights Assignment folder.
details pane

24. Lock pages in Memory Double-click Lock pages in memory
Local Security Policy Setting
Add User or Group
Add an account with privileges to run sqlservr.exe (SQL Server Service)
Enter the Windows account
Restart SQL Server service

25. Turn off Hyper-Threading
Turn off Hyper-Threading on the server
Hyper-Threading and SQL Server both use the L1 cache
Conflict with each other

26. Turn off Hyper-Threading
If the number of CPUs is twice the physical processors, disable Hyper-Threading
During boot up, get into the system settings
Processor Settings
Logical Processor
Change from Enabled to Disabled
Reboot
Verify in Task Manager

27. Database Backup Compression
2008 R2 SE has backup compression
2005 and 2008 can use third party
Red Gate SQL Backup
Quest LiteSpeed
Others

28. Performance Tuning Same as EE, except avoid EE features
Tuning more critical in SE
CPU directly affected by I/O
I/O
Efficient disk configuration
Indexes
Table variables vs temp tables
Identify high cost queries
dmv
SQL Profiler

29. ALTER INDEX Use REORGANIZE instead of ONLINE
ALTER INDEX MyIndexName ON MyTableName REORGANIZE;
Concentrate on fragmented indexes
Check the avg_fragmentation_in_percent in the dm_db_index_physical_stats

30. Database Files Tempdb and Database Percent growth Either can time out
initial growth too small
later grow too large
Either can time out
Optimal initial data and log sizes
Even growth in MB instead

31. Database Files Transaction log Autoshrink Backup regularly
Or set to SIMPLE
Autoshrink
Causes fragmentation
Turn off autoshrink

32. Database Files Separate volumes for Data file and Log file Data file
RAID 5, if possible RAID 10
Log file
RAID 1
Tempdb
Multiple Data Files
One file per CPU

33. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
SSMS Complete
SSMS Basic
SQLCMD
SQL Server PowerShell
Policy Management
Replication
Integration Services
Reporting Services
Analysis Services
Maintenance Plans
SQL Server Agent
SQL Server Profiler
Data Collection
Database Tuning Advisor

34. Recap Maximize Windows Server version Enterprise 64 bit Tune 32 bit
SQL Server
Standard Edition

35. More Information SQL Aloha
Brad M. McGehee, Director of DBA Education, Red Gate Software
DMV#4: Query Stats – Find the "top X" most expensive cached queries

36. More Information
SQL Server 2008 Management Tools Basic vs Complete Explained....

37. Questions ??? LinkedIn PASS WIT Virtual Chapter PASS PNWSQL Chapter
Slides will be on SQL Saturday #68 site