Archive for 'Network Performance'

CXPacket What?

By Mitch Bottel, April 19, 2011 Ever receive a late afternoon call just as you are unplugging your laptop to head home from an angry developer complaining about latency in his application trying to return data from your server? I know, I know, your first thought is “why did I answer that phone?” He claims [...]

Are you having network performance problems on your SQL Server server?

Brett Hawton – 3 November 2010 Typically DBA’s are not network gurus and the only time they are pretty sure that the network is in trouble is when the server cannot be remotely accessed. However when I was a DBA there was always a suspicion that there were times when the network was working sub-optimally. [...]