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The team sequentially tested a best practice or a set of practices during the program. For example, with the storage configuration, the team tested with multiple volumes using the PowerStore Volume Groups feature.
The purpose of the storage configuration best practice category was to optimize the SQL Server database using the PowerStore volume groups. The goal was to show how multiple volumes can improve SQL Server database performance. With each additional best practice, the working theory was that we would observe a gain in performance. For example, the last test in changing the SQL Server configuration option should achieve the overall optimal SQL Server performance. Building upon prior best practices shows that when best practices are deployed together, overall database performance becomes optimized.
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