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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Microsoft SQL Server Health Check

SQL Server Health Check is a very challenging subject that requires expertise in database administration and database development, due to lack of having skillful DBAs, companies are willing to have another opinion from third party regarding their SQL Server environment.
Fard Solutions Sdn Bhd provides expert SQL Server health check service where we dive deep into your SQL Server environment to find out current and potential issues by measuring over 80 factors. The SQL Server health check service only takes 30-45 minutes without down time and performance impact.
We are often referred by Microsoft Malaysia for SQL Server services, and we have ran this SQL Server Health Check to corporations which benefited them through our findings, such as Hong Leong Bank Berhad, Gamuda Berhad, Allianz Malaysia Berhad, Bursa Malaysia Berhad, GHL System Berhad, DKSH Corporations and etc.
You will receive a simple written explanation of our findings from the health check. All findings will be treated as Private and Confidential
Have you faced any of below issues and you do not know what causing it?
  • Data retrieval performance is too low.
  • Continuously growths of database log file size.
  • SQL Server does not utilize all of processors.
  • SQL Server does not respond to client application.
  • SQL Server is keep on restarting it self.
  • SQL Server occur “user connection timeout” error without any reason.
  • SQL Server does not reuse the memory space.
  • Disk I/O and Memory pressure.
  • Backup and Restore process takes long time.
  • SQL query execution gradually slower.
  • Tempdb I/O gradually increase.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Xen 4.5.1

The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) announced the availability of a new maintenance release, version 4.5.1 of the Xen Hypervisor. This new release contains bug fixes and improvements.
The following new capabilities and features are available in version 4.5.1:

  • Removal of race conditions in the Xen default toolstack that affected libvirt, in particular when used with OpenStack (this release contains all changes that we use in the Xen Project OpenStack CI loop; also see related OpenStack news);
  • Stability improvements to CPUPOOL handling, in particular when used with different schedulers;
  • Stability improvements to EFI support on some x86 platforms;
  • Stability improvement to handling of nested virtualisation on x86;
  • Various improvements to 32 and 64 bit ARM support;
  • Various improvements to better integrate and support rump kernels;
  • Error handling improvements;
  • Security fixes since the release of Xen 4.5.0,