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During the testing of SQL solutions on HP platforms, with the view to publishing configuration and best practices white papers, the HP Customer Focused Testing teams uncover many small but significant nuggets of information which are worthy of exposure. The purpose of this Blog is to provide a platform to communicate these discoveries and to share them with the general technical community.
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» Where does your database power go?

- Michael Doherty

When planning for a new solution such as a database system, increasingly IT management is being asked to consider the environmental impact of the project. This request can be broken down into elements such as carbon emissions and ultimately the amount of wattage of electricity the solution will consume. Servers are normally assumed to be the main culprit in power usage, but it can be quite an interesting exercise to take an high level view of energy consumption the whole solution to understand which components use the most electricity.

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Posted by SQL Server Solutions Team on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:32:00 AM
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» Addressing SQL Server Sprawl can also bring power savings
-By Michael Doherty

Data center power usage is developing into the primary concern for facilities management while all aspects of IT now have a responsibility to reduce their carbon footprint. As every organization throughout industry and commerce now understands, this subject is becoming more important and a major element concerning company strategy.
Products which address these issues will be of great interest to organizations especially if they have the potential to bring benifits such as improved manageability, availability and flexibility.
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Posted by SQL Server Solutions Team on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 2:48:00 PM
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» Using Volume Shrink with Database files (Part 2)

-by Michael Doherty

The functionality to reduce the size of a LUN has been around for some time on storage systems such as the HP StorageWorks EVA, and using tools such as HP StorageWorks Command View EVA makes this task is extremely simple.

The challenge has always been to make sure that the underlying operation system is also capable of effectively handling this reduction in size of the Logical Volume.

As we have already seen in the article ‘Using Volume Shrink with Database files (Part 1)’ SQL Server is capable of taking advantage of this technology, so in this in this article we will complete the picture and have a look at how this functionality can be used in tandem with the operating system to achieve practical space saving benefits.
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Posted by SQL Server Solutions Team on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 9:56:00 AM
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» Using Volume Shrink with Database files (Part 1)
-by Michael Doherty

With the introduction of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 comes a new Disk Manager feature which gives the ability to ‘shrink’ an Logical Volume!
If the oversized logical volume were created to host database files, and these files can be also reduced in size, true space saving activities and now be conducted to realize worthwhile benefits.
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Posted by SQL Server Solutions Team on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 10:21:00 AM
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