1. 1 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint On-Prem

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5. 5 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Outline 6 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Review most common mistakes with SharePoint environment configurations Best Practices for setting up SQL Server for SharePoint SQL Servers Security model Optimizing SQL Server performance SQL Server – Physical or Virtual? Outline

6. 6 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Most Common Mistakes with SharePoint Configurations

7. 7 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Most common mistakes  Setting up SQL instance on a shared SQL server  SysAdmin rights for all SharePoint accounts  DBs with guids (WSS_Content_qpdspd8932rrt)  DBs set with improper growth rates

8. 8 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for Setting up SQL Server for SharePoint

9. 9 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint  Always use a dedicated SQL server  Supported Versions of SQL:  SQL Server 2014 (supported with Service Pack 1 of SharePoint 2013)  SQL Server 2012  SQL Server 2008 R2 w/SP1  64-bit, 8 cores, 16GB RAM  Make sure you set the default collation for DBs to Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS (Case insensitive, Accent sensitive, Kana sensitive, Width sensitive)  Set MAXDOP to 1  Do NOT enable Auto-Create Statistics

10. 10 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint SQL Server Security  SP Install Account = SysAdmin rights on SQL Instance  SP Farm Account = DBCreator & SecurityAdmin on SQL Instance  If possible, configure SQL instance on non-standard ports (anything except 1433 & 1434)  Block ports 1433 & 1434 on SQL Server for incoming & outgoing traffic  Create DNS aliases for DR & security purposes

11. 11 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint Best practices for optimizing SQL Server performance  If possible, keep your crawl DB on separate disks  If possible, put the following on the fastest drives  Tempdb  Content DBs  Search DBs except for search admin db  DB Growth Rates  Pre-size DBs based on requirements  Always set autogrowth values to a fixed number of megabytes

12. 12 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint Best practices for optimizing SQL Server performance  Keep a close eye on the recovery options for your DBs. Simple Recovery SharePoint_Config Search Admin DB Analytics Reporting Crawl DB Link DB SharePoint Usage Logging DB User Profile DB Synch DB Social Tagging DB Master DB Temp DB

13. 13 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint Mirroring Options Log Shipping SQL Clustering Always On Availability Groups

14. 14 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015 SQL Server – Physical vs. Virtual?

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