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SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance

August 3, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Computed Column, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

This is the list of the all the articles in the series of computed column.

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SQL SERVER – Find Queries using Parallelism from Cached Plan

July 24, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
I recently came across wonderful blog post of Feodor Georgiev. He is one fine developer and like to dwell in the subject of performance tuning and query optimizations. He is one real genius and original blogger. Recently I came across his wonderful script, which I was in fact writing myself…
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SQL SERVER – Identifying Statistics Used by Query

July 19, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts
“Can I know which statistics were used by my query?” Recently, someone asked this question in my training class of query optimization and performance tuning. I really liked the question. The answer for me is very simple. “No.” Well, if I stop here suggesting only “No,” it will be an…
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SQL SERVER – Introduction to Best Practices Analyzer – Quick Tutorial

July 1, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL Utility
I previously wrote about SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer earlier and since then I have received many emails requesting to explain how it works. I assume that you can download and install the tool successfully. Once done just follow the steps listed…
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SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views

June 29, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Joins, SQL Scripts, SQL Statistics
I recently received an email that contains a question from one of my readers. I have already replied the answer to his email, but I would still like to bring it to your attention and ask if you think I could have done any better with the example I gave.…
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SQL SERVER – Data Pages in Buffer Pool – Data Stored in Memory Cache

June 17, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DMV, SQL Scripts
This will drop all the clean buffers so we will be able to start again from there. Now, run the following script and check the execution plan of the query. Have you ever wondered what types of data are there in your cache? During SQL Server Trainings, I am usually…
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SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2

June 11, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
Yesterday I have written a very quick blog post on SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME and I got tremendous response for the same. I suggest you read that blog post before continuing with this blog post today. I had asked people to honestly take part and share…
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