Whenever you extend the size of your data or log file with a larger value or your database perform autogrow operation to extend its database files with bigger value then SQL Server takes longer time to perform such activities. SQL...
I was getting wait type PREEMPTIVE_OS_WRITEFILEGATHER during database size allocation. Yesterday, I was configuring database size to the value that was suggested by the vendor. We need to set database size to 700GB keeping 150 GB to log files. I...
I am working on a project where we are migrating Oracle databases to SQL Server for SAP applications. We are using SAP migration tools to migrate these databases and we are not using SSMA for Oracle in this migration. These...
Instant file initialization is very useful feature to speedup the process of increasing or allocating data file space of a SQL Server database. Have you ever thought how SQL Server initialized its database files during space allocation? General way to...
