Smb cifs does not have adequate support for file locking to support a dbms at least it didn t a few years ago ca.
Sql server nas storage.
In the past microsoft sql server required its database files to be stored on local drives or san storage.
Your nas is a dumb storage device not a server capable of hosting a piece of software like sql.
Sql server all supported versions windows only starting with sql server 2012 11 x system databases master model msdb and tempdb and database engine user databases can be installed with server message block smb file server as a storage option.
However even though sql server now supports nas technology most folks will tell you that it is still not recommended for a.
2013 2016 2019 sharepoint in microsoft 365 the capacity planning information that we provide contains guidelines to help you plan and configure the storage and sql server database tier in a sharepoint server environment.
Backups are very important and many organizations have different standards and rules for storing backups from the more constrained from a security point of view which require you to store them locally on premises to the organizations that allow their dbas to store backups of their databases onto cloud storage.
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Server vendors got the point and everybody s local storage.
Definitely not nas for sql server.
However sql server on a cifs share is not reliable due to limitations of the protocol.
Networked storage is the most versatile storage but that s just one of the many benefits of buying a nas device.
Network attached storage nas nas devices usually contain one or more raid arrays which are accessed remotely over tcp ip.
In order to backup a sql server to nas drive all you need is to use sqlbak.
As of sql server 2008 r2 sql server now supports file level storage.
The best nas network attached storage devices for 2020.
Rather than accessing data at a block level data on a nas is accessed at the file level and sql server is designed to access blocks rather than files.
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Storage and sql server capacity planning and configuration sharepoint server 8 25 2020.
As a storage device it s also file level rather than block level you cannot ask the device for only a small piece of a file you have to take put the whole file at once which means you can t have concurrent access from multiple sources just by placing your data files onto the device.
The sql server 2000 i o basics whitepaper explains in stern terms why not just any storage will do we have to be sure our data will hit the disk in a calm orderly fashion.
Note that nfs does and you can actually do this with oracle on an nfs server.
