Today’s blog post is directly inspired by the conversation I had during my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the consulting engagement, we identified the customers had too many indexes on tables. The goal was to consolidate the indexes and to do the same, we realized that we needed a script which lists all the key columns and included columns of the indexes.
SQL SERVER – Update Table Statistics in Parallel with FULLSCAN
SQL Server Performance Tuning is a much simpler job if you know exactly where to look for and how to tune the configurations. Here is the real world scenario which I encountered during the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the performance tuning exercise, we realized that for one of the table we needed to update the statistics with the full scan as the table was a very critical table for their business. However, every time whenever we were running the update statistics job, the query was running very slow and almost never finish.
SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor
I have been using SQL Server for over 20 years and have been working on the focused area of SQL Server Performance Tuning for over 12 years. In recent time I have been very busy doing Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, and the client, I enjoy working the most is the one who has used in the past Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
Why Attend 21 Essential Scripts: Performance Tuning for EVERYONE?
After sending out the previous email where I explained that anyone who will attend SQLBits 2019: Pre-Con – 21 Essential Scripts: Performance Tuning for EVERYONE, will get 1 Hour FREE Consulting Hour, it seems that many of you have signed up for the course – Thank You! As per organizers, now there are only very few seats are available.
Solve 3 Biggest SQL Server Performance Challenges with Spotlight
My primary responsibility is to help people with SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization, and I believe there are three important challenges any DBA faces. Today we will discuss why I prefer to use Spotlight to identify SQL Server Performance issues and their resolutions.
SQLBits 2019: Attention Pre-Con Attendees – One Free Consulting Hour
SQLBits 2019 is one of my most favorite events.
If you are going to go to SQLBits 2019, you want to come to my pre-con about 21 Essential Scripts: Performance Tuning for EVERYONE. This pre-con contains best of my material and goes beyond what you conventionally know about any topic. It is no-nonsense, direct to demonstration and fast-paced advanced class where we discuss 21 essential scripts for SQL Server Performance Tuning.
SQL SERVER – Cleanup Plan Cache For a Single Database
During my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we had implemented quite a few improvements in the database. After making the improvements in the database, we reached to the point where we needed to clear the cache of the server to see how our improvements fairs with the changes which we have made.