Storage Benchmarking with SQLIO Batch

The goal of the storage performance analysis is to identify the performance characteristics of a target storage device. To determine the baseline of each system’s configuration, the free disk benchmarking utility from Microsoft called SQLIO can be used to...

Why You Should Benchmark Your Storage

You should benchmark your storage immediately. If you are a database administrator, you should benchmark it yesterday. And today. And next week. Well, that’s exaggerating things a bit… but storage performance should be at the core of your ongoing...

SQLIO Analyzer Latency Divide by Zero Issue Corrected

A special thanks goes to Daniel Angerer (t) for suggesting an improvement that corrected the divide by zero error that one of the calculations was showing on the SQLIO Analyzer Latency worksheet in the Excel file. The updated analyzer is located here. Thanks Daniel!...