Hi, I have a question about setting up a new server.
(4 processors, 1.2TB (approx. 50% available), 128GB RAM)
I have a very broad question (and I am sure there will be multiple answers...), about how best to set up a new server for a new SQL Server 2012 green field installation.
I require database area, SSIS and SSAS (and probably SSRS) to exist on the same server.
Can you provide any general advice (or useful links) on how I should best set up partitions for the above server?
I have a FactSales table which is 128GB, approx. 280M rows of data. Existing attempts (on commodity servers) to process a cube based on this data takes about 40 mins, but querying is slow, no doubt due to poor MDX in my calc measures...
The main thing I wanted to know was how to best set up SQL Server 2012, before the likely usage is known..? The critical thing is that query performance for cube users is maximised.
Many thanks,
Ken
