Best practices clinic

If you were the DBA for the SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-talk.com databases, what changes would you make?

There is an interesting experiment happening over at SQLServerCentral.com. The databases for SSC and Simple-talk.com can be monitored by anyone (SQL Monitor was installed and the interface made public at monitor.red-gate.com). So you’re invited to take a look at them, and then suggest changes to the configuration based on what you see.

Brad McGehee is writing a series of articles, with each article focusing on a specific topic, and readers are invited to send in their suggestions. In Part 1 the focus is simply on the property settings, because as Brad says, this is “what I do when I first check out a SQL Server that I have never seen before”. Brad, along with Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones and Simon Lye, will comment on the suggestions and then write a follow up. Gradually the articles will dive deeper into the environment and build a picture of best practices as recommended by the community.

Here’s an example of how it’s working:

Read Brad’s opening article, SQLServerCentral Best Practices Clinic: Part 1 for all the info.