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1 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2015

SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint On-Prem

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Ajay Iyer [email protected]

Lumeris (Sr. SharePoint Administrator)

SharePoint Experience – 8 years Ask me about – SP Solution

Architecture, SP administration Microsoft Certified –

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Outline

6 | SharePoint Saturday St . Louis 2015

• Review most common mistakes with SharePoint environment configurations• Best Practices for setting up SQL Server

for SharePoint• SQL Servers Security model• Optimizing SQL Server performance

• SQL Server – Physical or Virtual?

Outline


Most Common Mistakes with SharePoint Configurations


Most common mistakes

Setting up SQL instance on a shared SQL server SysAdmin rights for all SharePoint accounts DBs with guids (WSS_Content_qpdspd8932rrt) DBs set with improper growth rates


Best Practices for Setting up SQL Server for SharePoint


Best Practices for setting up SQL for SharePoint

Always use a dedicated SQL server Supported Versions of SQL:

SQL Server 2014 (supported with Service Pack 1 of SharePoint 2013)

SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2008 R2 w/SP1

64-bit, 8 cores, 16GB RAM Make sure you set the default collation for DBs to

Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS (Case insensitive, Accent sensitive, Kana sensitive, Width sensitive)

Set MAXDOP to 1 Do NOT enable Auto-Create Statistics



SQL Server Security

SP Install Account = SysAdmin rights on SQL Instance SP Farm Account = DBCreator & SecurityAdmin on SQL

Instance If possible, configure SQL instance on non-standard ports

(anything except 1433 & 1434) Block ports 1433 & 1434 on SQL Server for incoming &

outgoing traffic Create DNS aliases for DR & security purposes



Best practices for optimizing SQL Server performance

If possible, keep your crawl DB on separate disks If possible, put the following on the fastest drives

Tempdb Content DBs Search DBs except for search admin db

DB Growth Rates Pre-size DBs based on requirements Always set autogrowth values to a fixed number of

megabytes



Best practices for optimizing SQL Server performance

Keep a close eye on the recovery options for your DBs.

Simple Recovery

SharePoint_Config

Search Admin DB

Analytics Reporting

Crawl DB

Link DBSharePoint Usage Logging DB

User Profile DB

Synch DB

Social Tagging DBMaster DBTemp DB



Mirroring Options

• Log Shipping• SQL Clustering• Always On Availability Groups

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SQL Server – Physical vs. Virtual?


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