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Helpful]]>RickFri, 21 Mar 2008 08:37:57 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/benchmarks/compaq-goes-to-businessville#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/more-easy-sql-server-performance-tips#commentsAnchorMon, 16 May 2005 04:13:15 GMT
]]>Anonymous User Mon, 16 May 2005 04:13:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/more-easy-sql-server-performance-tips#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/more-easy-sql-server-performance-tips#commentsAnchorMon, 16 May 2005 04:12:15 GMT
SQL Parameters To find the options in Table A, you right-click on the registered server you want to tune, select Configure..., and go to the Configuration tab. You can tune many other SQL Server parameters (just go to the SQL Enterprise Manager and bring up the configuration dialog for the server). The parameters listed in Table A are the major ones that can significantly improve your overall system performance. You will probably need to further tweak and tune the settings until you find the best combination for your environment. Use Perfmon to watch system and SQL counters during normal server operations, and analyze your system usage to guide your tuning decisions. ]]>Anonymous User Mon, 16 May 2005 04:12:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/more-easy-sql-server-performance-tips#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorThu, 28 Apr 2005 03:41:40 GMT
iT is given me good understanding of RAID levels, but RAID , Parity must have been defined ]]>Anonymous User Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:41:40 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorMon, 21 Feb 2005 06:03:44 GMT
It’s good as an overview, which is exactly what I was after. If I need to know more I’ll read a more in depth document. Thanks.]]>Anonymous User Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:03:44 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorThu, 10 Feb 2005 11:24:05 GMT
needs depth]]>Anonymous User Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:24:05 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/hp-s-pentium-pro-based-vectra-xu-6-150#commentsAnchorWed, 05 Jan 2005 20:10:40 GMT
ancient]]>Anonymous User Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:10:40 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/hp-s-pentium-pro-based-vectra-xu-6-150#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/clustering-solutions-for-windows-nt#commentsAnchorTue, 16 Nov 2004 16:05:21 GMT
this article is fine for finding out about clustering but it doesnt explain were to get clustering software you should include that in an article ]]>Anonymous User Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:05:21 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/clustering-solutions-for-windows-nt#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorTue, 16 Nov 2004 10:34:17 GMT
I came here to for answers now i leave with another question. What is parity]]>Anonymous User Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:34:17 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorTue, 02 Nov 2004 00:01:50 GMT
But it is not clear that whether win NT supports raid 1+0 or not]]>Anonymous User Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:01:50 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorTue, 02 Nov 2004 00:01:50 GMT
But it is not clear that whether win NT supports raid 1+0 or not]]>Anonymous User Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:01:50 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/enterprise-administrator-4-0#commentsAnchorMon, 18 Oct 2004 14:31:09 GMT
dfgf]]>Anonymous User Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:31:09 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/enterprise-administrator-4-0#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorTue, 12 Oct 2004 10:40:38 GMT
cool]]>Anonymous User Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:40:38 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorMon, 24 May 2004 13:06:50 GMT
A decent overview but it lacks any depth. It would be nice to give an idea about drive usage. (ie in raid 3 x% of the available space should be deticated to parity) If you want a thorough understanding of raid look elswere.]]>Jacob White Mon, 24 May 2004 13:06:50 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internet/dbweb-1-0-and-cold-fusion-pro-1-5#commentsAnchorSat, 10 Apr 2004 21:18:56 GMT
WHERE CAN I GET A COPY OF DBWEB..MICROSOFT DOES NOT HAVE IT]]>oscarSat, 10 Apr 2004 21:18:56 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internet/dbweb-1-0-and-cold-fusion-pro-1-5#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/still-looking-for-a-bug-free-computer#commentsAnchorTue, 06 Apr 2004 11:12:55 GMT
Realy this is the best!I loves computers very,very,..much and i want to have it! Now i have very old computer and i can’t play any games because my fother doesn’t want to buy me computer!I don’t now why!? Then please,please..can you give me for gift computer? I will be most happiest child on the world!!! Please,please... Greetings]]>Milica Sucevic Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:12:55 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/still-looking-for-a-bug-free-computer#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorWed, 25 Feb 2004 11:10:30 GMT
Thank for the Review, I know i’ts been a while but if you have the manual or the switches specs for the StarView SV421 I would really appreciate a copy. Also, you did not talk about it in the review but i’d really like to know that the "phone jack" on the right side of the unit is for. Thank you.]]>Christian Simard Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:10:30 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorSun, 23 Nov 2003 19:36:30 GMT
This article is good, but I think that you should also put the minimum number of disks to be used in each raid level.]]>john ville Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:36:30 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/the-compaq-proliant-server-4500#commentsAnchorSat, 15 Nov 2003 13:58:24 GMT
the 4500 is still a great fast machine all these years later]]>stuart j hindle Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:58:24 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/the-compaq-proliant-server-4500#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorTue, 28 Oct 2003 14:55:12 GMT
I think that this article is very good elaborated and provides a very good and understandable information about RAID fault tolerance. But i’d like though to know how backup (tape) differs from RAID, and why using one instead of the other.]]>Jorge Martinez Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:55:12 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-levels#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/compaq-lte-5200#commentsAnchorFri, 03 Oct 2003 21:02:47 GMT
Was given a LTE 5280 and have purchased a CDrom to use in the multibay. How do you get windows to recognize the CDrom. Setup sees it but window 95 does not.]]>Jim Kuehn Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:02:47 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/compaq-lte-5200#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/run-nt-on-laptops-yes-you-can-#commentsAnchorFri, 01 Feb 2002 06:07:29 GMT
Hi, I have a laptop travelmate 739 TLV, with Windows 2000 prof. And experience repeat "random" problems when starting. Many time the screen gets frozen with the Acer logo. I have to shut down several times before it comes back.]]>rodrigoFri, 01 Feb 2002 06:07:29 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/run-nt-on-laptops-yes-you-can-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/compaq-lte-5200#commentsAnchorMon, 19 Mar 2001 12:12:42 GMT
Where can I get stuff to go with my Compaq LTE 5200.]]>DerekMon, 19 Mar 2001 12:12:42 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/compaq-lte-5200#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/migration/top-engineering-solution-providers#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 13:58:07 GMT
When I saw that your July issue included an article called, “Top Engineering Solution Providers,” by Joel Sloss, I said, “Finally, an article that’s not about the Internet, business apps, the Internet, graphics cards, the Internet, fax servers, the Internet.” You get the picture. I eagerly read the article! It talks about CAD and CAM. I’m not knocking those fields, but the author left out the chemical process industry (CPI). My company has had native NT software libraries (Intel and PowerPC platforms) since the early days of NT. Our software lets chemical (and mechanical, electrical, and metallurgical) engineers build simulations of common unit operations, such as distillation columns, reactors, and extraction units. Other companies like mine have native NT software that handles realtime data analysis and distributed control for chemical plants. I hope you publish more articles about NT and engineering. Being able to have one software platform for office apps and engineering apps makes an engineer’s life easier. Just remember that engineering is not all fancy graphics on a 21", 16-million color, 1024x768 resolution monitor.
John A. Jackson,
president and CEO, LWE Research]]>John A. Jackson Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:58:07 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/migration/top-engineering-solution-providers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/the-compaq-report#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 13:49:20 GMT
Your August issue’s review of the Com-paq ProLiant 4500 (Joel Sloss, “The Compaq Report”) reports a problem with the external disk storage cabinet. The author says the problem went uncorrected for days. But then he says how impressed he was with the system and that it “deserves consideration for high-use environments.” I can’t imagine how anyone can recommend a system that can have a major subsystem broken for days. Today’s business needs dictate around-the-clock availability for applications that would typically run on a machine such as the 4500. Outages of the magnitude Mr. Sloss mentions are unacceptable in today’s enterprise environment.
--Richard Thompson,
senior staff software
programmer/analyst, Amoco

Thank you for your letter. I agree that high availability is key in an enterprise environment and that having a major server component broken for days is completely unacceptable. The reason why this red flag didn’t alarm me more is that a magazine reviewer does not work through the same channels that customers do: I didn’t have a case number or service contract, so as far as the Compaq service center or local service provider was concerned, neither I nor the system existed. I had to go through unorthodox channels, which meant a longer process and a lower priority than a paying customer. My review warned about the lack of support, but I fully expect that customers with warranties and service contracts will get better service than I got from my local service provider. I reported the problems to Compaq representatives, and they assure me they are working on solutions.
--Joel Sloss]]>Richard Thompson Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:49:20 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/the-compaq-report#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/systems-administrator/overloading-your-server-with-multi-homing#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 13:20:15 GMT
Your October Lab Guys article, “Overloading Your Server with Multi-Homing,” was entertaining. As a UNIX networking professional with more than 10 years of TCP/IP experience, I’m amused that anyone would expect to multi-home a server/ workstation with all the interfaces on the same IP subnet. Solaris handles multi-homing with ease. My SPARCstation10 has three 10 Base T interfaces and two Cisco FDDI S-Bus interfaces as a network monitoring station. This scenario demonstrates the robustness of Solaris to handle all the interfaces. The main difference between what you have tried and what I am doing is that I have each interface configured on a separate IP subnet. Also, the 10 Base T cards use a 24-bit subnet mask, and the FDDI cards use a 25-bit subnet mask. IP routing issues affect the dynamic routing table inside the server. You can’t have multiple routes to the same subnet, each with the same number of hop counts (all 0 in your case). You can typically have one default route (generally, through the nearest router) and other dynamically learned routes, one per destination subnet. How did you ever expect your server to work with the routing constraints that the IP routing protocols (e.g., RIP) impose? UNIX network administrators will make better NT administrators than those who grew up from Novell and Banyan environments. It’s not just the network operating system (NOS) that’s important, but also the underlying network protocols and their implied complexities. TCP/IP is better left for the UNIX guys and gals. Keep up the good work. My subscription order is in the mail.
--Joel Shandelman]]>Joel Shandelman Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:20:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/systems-administrator/overloading-your-server-with-multi-homing#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-enhanced-disk-storage-for-windows-nt#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 11:18:00 GMT
I read Joel Sloss’ August Lab Reports about RAID with much interest. We’re running several NT servers with software-supported RAID 5, and moving to hardware RAID is definitely in our future. I find it odd that many hardware developers are concentrating on server performance and forgetting about desktop performance, which can be just as crucial in many situations. Our company publishes programming languages for DOS and Windows, and our compiler is written in several million lines of assembler. On a noncaching SCSI controller and a 200MHz Pentium system, a full compile takes 68 minutes. When we switched to a caching VLB controller with 16MB of RAM, the compile time on the same machine was 39 minutes; 32MB of RAM was 22 minutes. When we switched to a PCI card with 32MB of RAM on the same motherboard, the compile time was less than 13 minutes. All other system hardware stayed the same. This compile was performed in a DOS box in Windows 95. When we upgraded to NT, the compile time was 9 minutes, again with the same hardware. After a year of constant service, we had to replace our controller. I was shocked to discover that nearly all SCSI controller manufacturers have abandoned making caching controllers. The only caching controllers we could find were for file servers and included features we didn’t need on a desktop environment. We paid for features we didn’t need, but the performance of a caching controller was worth it in this case. But as we purchase new systems, we’ll have to forgo caching controllers for many of them because the cost is too high on the desktop. I hope that manufacturers will realize that people in many industries rely on desktop system performance as much as they do server performance. Please bring back desktop caching controllers.
--Dave Navarro, Jr.]]>Dave Navarro, Jr. Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:18:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/raid-enhanced-disk-storage-for-windows-nt#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 10:53:06 GMT
I enjoy your magazine and articles such as Joel Sloss’ July “KVM Switches Roundup,” but I think your Lab exercised poor judgment when it failed to test these switches on non-Intel platforms such as the Macintosh. At a previous contracting assignment, I worked with an earlier version of the Raritan switch, which performed superbly with three Intel-based systems running everything from OS/2 to Win95. But when we added a Macintosh system, we had video mode and synchronization problems switching back to the Intel systems. I left the job shortly after and didn’t hear what the problem and solution was. I think you should have at least tried some other platforms given that you had the hardware available and resources that aren’t available to your average reader.
--Mike Coleman]]>Mike Coleman Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:53:06 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorFri, 13 Aug 1999 10:52:20 GMT
I’m writing about Joel Sloss’ July article, “KVM Switches Roundup.” I am a high school student who often works on computers and networks. Previously, I served as an assistant network manager. In this role, I worked extensively with the ServeView hardware switch. After my organization’s technology director selected this product, I installed, maintained, and later upgraded the unit. Although I greatly appreciated the benefits of hardware device access vs. remote access of our servers, I found many drawbacks to this unit. During the unit’s installation, a vital server’s keyboard port fried when attached to the ServeView box. The unit was off at the time, so there was no way to access the device, physically or remotely. Upgrading the ServeView box is not a straightforward task. Upgrade cards are both expensive (about half the original cost of the unit) and cumbersome; the buyer receives a card, a bag of parts, and a vague exploded diagram with no instructions or guidelines. ServeView’s proprietary cable system is very annoying. Whenever you change your server setup, you must purchase exorbitantly expensive cables that have a makeshift appearance.
--Matt Bush]]>Matt Bush Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:52:20 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/kvm-switches-roundup#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/run-nt-on-laptops-yes-you-can-#commentsAnchorThu, 12 Aug 1999 15:34:15 GMT
I read with interest, “Run NT on Laptops? Yes, You Can!” (March 1997). I’m surprised that you didn’t test a Toshiba machine. Having used a Satellite Pro 400 CDT, with 24MB of memory for more than 15 months, I’ve had good experiences with NT on a laptop. NT 3.51’s performance was always very good on the 70MHz Pentium. I recently upgraded to NT 4.0 and Service Pack 1 (SP1), and the same apps as on NT 3.51, plus Exchange (mainly using Remote Access Service—RAS), Visual Basic (VB), and Access, are slower. Also, shutting down the system takes several minutes longer than with NT 3.51. The Toshiba machine is useful for general-purpose apps with NT 4.0, but we are now looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest model.
--G.Langrish

I’m glad you’ve had such good experience with your Toshiba. In fact, numerous Toshiba portables are in use throughout our company, and many are running NTW 4.0. We didn’t review Toshiba because Toshiba told us that it didn’t support NT and thus didn’t want to participate. In the near future, as manufacturers start embedding Phoenix Technologies’ new NoteBIOS, which includes direct support for NT 4.0, manufacturers will become more willing to endorse NT on laptops. And, as revisions to NT 4.0 come out and NT 5.0 appears with better portable support, more vendors will be interested in tapping the growing NT market.
--Joel Sloss]]>G.Langrish Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:34:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/run-nt-on-laptops-yes-you-can-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/scalability/microsoft-sql-server-6-5-scalability#commentsAnchorThu, 12 Aug 1999 15:15:57 GMT
The January article, “Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Scaleability,” by Joel Sloss, is excellent. I just want to congratulate you on a job well done. Though I was very interested in seeing the performance differences (or as you described, the lack thereof) under load between the Pentium and Pentium Pro (P6), I would also like to see more on SQL performance and scaling on an Alpha (coincidentally the only non-Intel processor left on the platform list). An objective comparison between platforms of such different architectures might also reveal anomalies or low-level hardware differences that might otherwise not be possible to witness in a single platform environment (i.e., Intel). Keep up the good work, your articles are highly appreciated.
--Kirk R. Erichsen]]>Kirk R. Erichsen Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:15:57 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/scalability/microsoft-sql-server-6-5-scalability#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/benchmarks/neat-tricks-in-nt-4-0-and-benchmarks#commentsAnchorThu, 12 Aug 1999 14:32:25 GMT
I want to caution everyone about a utility that Joel Sloss and Dean Porter mention in November 1996’s Lab Guys, “Neat Tricks in NT 4.0 and Benchmarks.” The authors used cacls.exe to enhance security by removing all rights for the group EVERYONE. This idea is great, but soon after I ran this utility, nobody could print. They needed Change access to the system32 directory and Full Control Access to the system32\spool and system32\spool\printers directories. After I restored the permissions, everyone could print again.
--Roneil Icatar,]]>Roneil Icatar Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:32:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/benchmarks/neat-tricks-in-nt-4-0-and-benchmarks#commentsAnchor