Hi all,
This might sound like a trivial and obvious for some, but I've been task to proove that moving from SQL Express to Standard will give us performance gains.
We have one server that has SQL express that is used by custom application and the application is slow when running reports. I'm pushing my employer to buy Standard.
Finally he agreed but have asked me to prove the performance gains.
Here is some info for the server:
Server ram: 64GB
Database 1 Size: 8.5GB
Database 2 Size: 6GB
Database 3 Size: 3GB
2 CPUs 1.8GHz, with 4 cores each.
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My plan:
I was thinking of ruining several select queries on the biggest table and running some reports and measuring the time.
Obviously I can't use update/insert/delete on the production database.
I was looking into running several performance counters like:
SQL Server: Cache...