Tuning SQL Server for Sharepoint 2013- What every sharepoint consultant needs to know - SharePoint Summit Vancouver 2014

Tuning SQL Server for SharePoint : what
every SharePoint consultant needs to know
Serge Luca & Isabelle Van Campenhoudt

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Isabelle Van
Campenhoudt
MVP SQL
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Serge Luca
MVP SharePoint
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About Us
Serge Luca
SharePoint MVP
Consultant, speaker, trainer- Brussels (Belgium)
Managing partner of www.ShareQL.com
Works with SharePoint since 2001
Blog: http://sergeluca.wordpress.com/
sergeluca@ShareQL.com
@SergeLuca
Serge Luca

About us
Isabelle Van
Campenhoudt
SQL Server MVP
Consultant, speaker, trainer-Brussels (Belgium)
Managing partner of www.ShareQL.com
Works with SQL Server since 1999
Blog: http://thesqlgrrrl.wordpress.com/
ivc@ShareQL.com
@thesqlgrrrl
Isabelle
Van
Campenhoudt

Credits
Serge Luca
Accidental DBA
Isabelle
Van Campenhoudt
SQL guru

Agenda
Basic SharePoint DB concepts
Operating System settings
SQL Server configuration
Databases configuration
SharePoint and SQL Server integration concepts
SQL Server optimization
HA and DR : Always On Availability Groups & SP 2013
Agenda

Basic SharePoint DB concepts
Databases configuration
SharePoint and SQL Server integration concepts
SQL Server optimization
HA and DR : Always On Availability Groups & SP 2013
Agenda

Basic SharePoint Concepts
95% of SharePoint
content stored in SQL
Server
Farm Configuration
information stored in
configuration db
Central Administration
content stored in own
content db
Most Service
Applications have at
least one db
All Web Applications
have at least one
content db
Farm has several
databases; >20 if
spousal installation

Optimize Hardware
CPU RAM DISK Network
10

Latence
Network
Latency between web
front ends and SQL
Server
• < 1 ms during10 minutes (1% failure max)
• 1 Giga bits / sec
• Mandatory for stretched farm, but good practice

NTFS Allocation Unit Size
64K is optimal, 4K =
30% Performance
Penalty
Use chkdsk <drive>to
Verify
Use Format to Configure:
• Format <drive> /Q /FS:NTFS /A:64K /V:<volume> /Y

For SharePoint 2013:
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
• SQL Server 2012 (SP1 for BI)
• SQL Server 2014 (SP2013 SP1 & April CU)
Don’t install SSMS on
the SQL Server
computer
Use named instances
SharePoint
Use a dedicated
instance
Run the service with
a Managed account
•No specific
permission

Collation settings
Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS
(for SharePoint databases)
(Any CI collation is supported for
tempDBs, master, but Latin1_xxx_
is recommended)
SP uses this collation when it
creates its own db Cannot be changed after the setup

Max degree of
parallelism
Maxdop=1

Specify memory
limits

Backups
Compression
SQL server Configuration

Use alias for the connection string
• Client alias or DNS alias (preferred)
Good practice : every SP Content db must be
created (and documented) by a DBA after a strict
capacity plan

System
databases
Master : similar to
the SP configDB
Model : template
for other dbs
Tempdb :
temporarily results
Msdb : for
automation
User databases The SharePoint databases
SQL Server basic concepts

Simple Recovery Model
.MDF.LDFAdd
Content
Content Database Located on Hard Drive
Checkpoint
Data
Data
Simple Recovery Model

Full Recovery Model
.LDF
Data
Data
.MDFAdd
Content
Content Database Located on Hard Drive
Checkpoint
Data
Data
Full Recovery Model (Recommended)

Model db : recovery
model = full
Tempdb : recovery model
= simple
SharePoint DB : recovery
model ?
Contend DB = full Config DB= simple
Services App DBs= it
depends :
• http://technet.microsoft.c
om/en-
us/library/cc678868.aspx
Always On Availability groups: recovery = full !

Model DB settings
Increase Initial size
Increase Autogrowth
(MB , not %)
Don’t modify Model db
collation Full Recovery Model

Tempdb settings
Configure Tempdb files
•#files = #cores
•(on sql server 2012 Max 8 if
#cores > 8)
•Same size for every file
Configure Tempdb Size
•At Least 10% of Total
Content DB’s Size or
•Size of Largest Table -
Whichever Greater
Tempdb Database Settings
•Increase Initial Size Setting
•Increase Autogrowth Settings (Use MB Not %)
•Use Simple Recovery Model
•Place on Different Drive Than Content Databases

Files Placement
Priority (Fastest to
Slowest Drive)
 Tempdb Data and
Transaction Log Files
 DataBase Transaction Log
Files
 Search Database Data Files
 Content Database Data
Files
Use Multiple Data Files
for Content and Search
DB’s
 Distribute Equally-Sized Data
Files Across Separate Disks
 Number of Data Files
Should Be <= Number of
Processor Cores
 Multiple Data Files Not
Supported for Other DBs

Installating SharePoint
Setup account
(sp-install)
Must be:
(SQL Server)
DBcreator
(SQL Server)
Securityadmin
Local admin Domain account

Integrating SharePoint and SQL Serveur
Farm has several
databases; >20 if
spousal installation
Site Collections only
reside in one
database
Content database
contains multiple site
collections (2,000
Default Setting)
If Site Collection >
100GB store in own
content database
•Soft limit maximum
size <= 200 GB

SP Health Analyzer
Job will defragment the
indices
If fragment >
30% &
rowcount >
10.000
Job will update statistics
AUTO_CREATE
_STATISTICS
OFF

Verify Integrity of databases
DBCC CheckDB
Check REPAIR_REBUILD
Option to Fix Errors (Not
Always Possible)
REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_
LOSS Not Supported
Time Consuming
Operation, Run During
Non-Peak Hours
For Very Large DBs
consider using option
MAXDOP=1

 CPU
 I/O (Iometer is a tool to check your SAN)
 Network
 Memory
Run a trace of
Performance
Counters (24 hours)
 Provides templates of accurate
counters
 Analyse regarding thresholds
 Generate meaningfull reports
Use PAL
(« Performance
Analysis of Logs »)
Use this trace as a baseline!!!

Using SQL Server Resource Governor to
optimize Search Database usage
Part of SQL Server
Enterprise (since
SQL 2008)
Limits CPU and
memory usage on
some DBs (and IO in
SQL Server 2014)
• like search DBs
Allow less CPU &
mem & IO usage
during work hours
Allow more CPU &
mem & IO usage
during off hours
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Terminology
Service Level Agreement
HA DR RPO RTO

SQL 1
FARM 1
SQL 2
High
Availabilty
Synchronous

SQL 1
FARM 1
SQL 2
Synchronous
High
Availabilty

Database Supported
Admin Content Yes
App Management Yes
BDC Yes
Config Yes
Content Yes
Managed Metadata Yes
PerformancePoint Yes
PowerPivot Not Tested
Project Yes
Search Analytic Reporting Yes
Search Admin Yes
Database Supported
Search Crawl Yes
Search Links Yes
Secure Store Yes
State Service Yes
Subscription Settings Yes
Translation Services Yes
UPA Profile Yes
UPA Social Yes
UPA Sync Yes
Usage(=loggingDB) Yes – NR
Word Automation Yes
WE

SQL 1
FARM 1
SQL 2
FARM 2
SQL 3
Asynchronous
Disaster
Recovery
Synchronous

Database Support – Async Commit
Database Supported
Admin Content No
App Management Yes
BDC Yes
Config No
Content Yes
Managed Metadata Yes
PerformancePoint Yes
PowerPivot Not Tested*
Project Yes
Search Analytic Reporting No
Search Admin No
Database Supported
Search Crawl No
Search Links No
Secure Store Yes
State Service No
Subscription Settings Yes
Translation Services Yes
UPA Profile Yes
UPA Social Yes
UPA Sync No
Usage Yes – NR
Word Automation Yes
WE

Comparison Always On
and other SQL Servers HA & DR
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
SQL Server Solution
Potential
Data Loss
(RPO)
Potential
Recovery
Time (RTO)
Automatic
Failover
Readable
Secondaries
AlwaysOn Availability Group - synchronous-commit Zero Seconds Yes 0 – 2
AlwaysOn Availability Group - asynchronous-commit Seconds Minutes No 0 - 4
AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance NA Seconds
-to-minutes
Yes NA
Database Mirroring - High-safety (sync + witness) Zero Seconds Yes NA
Database Mirroring - High-performance (async) Seconds Minutes No NA
Log Shipping Minutes Minutes
-to-hours
No Not during
a restore
Backup, Copy, Restore Hours Hours
-to-days
No Not during
a restore

Thank you for your attention!
This presentation will be available on the Vancouver
SharePoint Summit web site a few days after the event.
@sergeluca
@thesqlgrrrl

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