Niko Neugebauer 7/22/2020

SQL Server Azure VM Disks Caching & Uncaching

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This technical article examines disk caching for SQL Server workloads on Azure Virtual Machines. It details Microsoft's standard recommendations but presents performance data showing uncached disk throughput often outperforms cached throughput, especially on VMs with fewer than 64 cores. The analysis encourages reconsidering best practices for data, log, and temp db drives based on specific VM families and workloads.

SQL Server Azure VM Disks Caching & Uncaching

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