Two handy papers on common database performance considerations

Len posted recently the link to the new Analysis Services performance guide. If you also care about SQL Server engine performance, these two papers are worth a quick read:

• Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005 , which takes you through steps for identifying and resolving typical database performance problems.


• Physical Database Storage Design , explores considerations that should be weighed when mapping logical database designs to available physical storage. Drive capacity continues to grow by leaps and bounds but I/O channel rates and disk latency have grown much more slowly, so this is a topic that's not likely to go away for DBAs any time soon.

Enjoy!

-David