Grumpy Old DBA

SQL Server Resource for the DBA

  Infrastructure

This area is about all those other things a DBA should consider when managing a SQL Server. Topics here will include storage, raid, SANs, Operating Systems, memory, cpu's and so on. It's very important to realise that the performance of a database application may be affected by many external factors, such as a switch being set to half duplex. This will explore the wonderful world of infrastructure.