Hi
We have SQL Server 2005 32bit Windows 2003 Enterprise setup with 36 GB RAM.
Due to Business requirement for 2 Weeks in a year we have a lot of load i.e almost 1000 users connection for our Database which is about 1 Terabite in size.
It becomes very slow and the hard disk crahsed due to lot of load. Below is the configuration we had set up.
Min Memory - 5 GB
Max Memory - 30 GB
AWE - Enabled
Query Timeout - 21 mins.
PAE swith is added in the boot.ini file
Please suggest on how to over come or how to mange the SQL Server Database during Peak hours and with lot of user connections