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May 4 – 8, 2015Chicago, IL

Microsoft SharePoint Server with SQL Server: Now Better Than EverBrian Alderman

About meBrian Alderman (MCSE: SharePoint, MCT / Author / Speaker)CBT Nuggets – www.cbtnuggets.com brian.alderman@cbtnuggets.com@brianalderman @cbtnuggetswww.microtechpoint.com – Brian’s BlogCo-Author SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s CompanionCo-Author SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside OutEnjoy travel and golf

AgendaSharePoint and SQL

Server integration

Demo: SQL Server Optimizing

Configurations

SQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013

Avoiding ginormous

transaction logsSharePoint and SQL Server best practices

SQL Server Configurations

SharePoint and SQL Server integration

All SQL Server versions and SharePoint versionsMajority of SharePoint data stored in SQL ServerSharePoint farm configuration info stored in Config_DB Central Administration content stored in own content database (Blog on how to rename)Every web application minimum of one content DB (Blog on how to rename)Most service applications have at least one DBRecommended dedicated instance of SQL for SharePoint

SQL Server Instance DatabasesConfiguration database of SQL Server instance

Storage of SQL Server automation configuration information

Temporary work storage area

Template used to create all new databases

Master

Msdb

Tempdb

Model

SharePoint farm requires several databases (>20 DB’s if spousal installation and run Configuration Wizard) Content database contains several site collectionsSite collection resides in only one content databaseUse Full Recovery model on production databasesControl size of database (Recommended 200GB) Site collection quota templates Maximum number of site collections per database

Controlling Size of Content Databases

Web Application

200GB 200GB 200GB

200GB

Site Collections Site Collections Site Collections Site Collections

ProjectSites

DepartmentSites

HRSites

MarketingSites

Require 800 Site Collections with 500 MB Quota400 x 500MB = 200GB

750mb X 250 = 187,500mb / 1024 = 183gb

250 250 250 250

SQL Server configurations

Default file locations (Move off C:\ Drive)Minimum and maximum Memory settingsMax Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) set to 1 Create SQL Server alias for SharePoint SQL instance (Not used by FAST search SKU (SharePoint 2010, use DNS alias)SharePoint collation – Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS

During installation of SQL Server hosting SharePoint contentDuring creation of content database in SQL Server

Model database file settingsIncrease initial size of data and log filesIncrease Autogrowth settings (Use MB not %)

Tempdb database file settings Increase initial size of data and log filesIncrease Autogrowth settings (Use MB not %) Use Simple Recovery model Place files on different drive from content databases

Steps for AlwaysOn Setup

Create SharePoint

farm

Prepare databases for

AlwaysOn

Be sure set to Full Recovery model

Backup all SharePoint databases

Prepare SQL Server cluster

Use created AlwaysOn

cluster with SharePoint

Prepare SharePoint 2013

with SP1

Create SQL alias and point to SQL

node

Create new farm with DB’s & SA’s using SQL alias

Create new AlwaysOn

Availability Group

Create listener

Update SQL alias on each server to

use listener

Test SQL Server failover with SharePoint

Demo: SQL Server Configurations

Brian Alderman

SQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013

Performance Standard edition supports up to 128GB of RAM opposed to 64 in SQL Server 2012AlwaysOn Availability Groups Enhancements Supports 8 secondary replicas as opposed to 4 Read-only secondary’s still available if lose primary or quorum Azure support for hosting availability group data files, entire replica, and backing up to a URL to store in Azure Blob StorageSecurity Support for native backup encryption

SQL Server 2014 with SharePoint 2013, must have May CU Access Services 2013 not supported on SQL Server 2014 CTP

New deployments should specify Availability Group Listener name that will host the CA and configuration DB’sAppFabric 1.1 installation https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server/Comparison.aspxSharePoint 2016 will require SQL Server 2014

Avoiding ginormous transaction logs

SQL Server Transaction Log Process

Modification is sent byapplication to SQL Server1

Data pages are located in, or read into the buffer cache and then modified

2

Buffer Cache

Modification is recorded in transaction log on disk3

Later, CHECKPOINT writesdirty pages to database4

LDF

MDF

Avoiding Ginormous Transaction Logs

mdf ldf

Sunday

Full Backup

mdf ldf

Tuesday

Differential

mdf ldf

Differential

Monday

mdf ldf

Differential

Wednesday

You lose mdf file of database on Thursday at 4:00pm

(1) BACKUP LOG DB_Name TO D:\SQLBackups\TempBackup.Bak WITH NORECOVERY

(2) Restore Full Backup from Sunday (3) Restore Differential Backup from Wednesday

(4) RESTORE LOG FROM D:\SQLBackups\TempBackup.Bak

BACKUP LOG DB_Name TO D:\SQLBackups\Weekly_T_Log.Bak WITH INIT

Best practices

Dedicated SQL Server 2014 instance / serverNo spousal installations of SQL Server or SharePointDatabase size should not exceed 200GBMax Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) set to 1Create SQL alias for SQL Server SharePoint instanceModify Model and Tempdb system database settings Don’t enable Auto_Create or Auto_Update Statistics Avoid auto-shrinking databasesUse database Autogrowth sparingly

Reduces fragmentationImproves data entry performance

Spread data files and transaction log files across multiple drives or place on RAID 5/10Create multiple Tempdb files (.ndf) on multiple drives or RAID 10 for drives hosting Tempdb filesGenerate Database Maintenance PlansDefragment drives containing content database filesDon’t rebuild or manage indexes of SharePoint DB’sPerform regular backups of database and t-logsMonitor SQL Server storage and performancePerform DBCC CHECKDB operations regularlySay NO to Simple Recovery model

ReviewSharePoint and SQL

Server integration

Demo: SQL Server Optimizing

Configurations

SQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013

Avoiding ginormous

transaction logsSharePoint and SQL Server best practices

SQL Server Configurations

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AgendaSharePoint and SQL Server integrationSQL Server configurations Demo: Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint SQL Server instance configurations Database configurationsSQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013Avoiding ginormous transaction logsSQL Server best practices

ReviewSharePoint and SQL Server integrationSQL Server configurations Demo: Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint SQL Server instance configurations Database configurationsSQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013Avoiding ginormous transaction logsSQL Server best practices

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