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Poor Indexing Strategies

SQL SERVER – Poor Indexing Strategies – 10 Don’ts for Indexes

February 13, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

The most questions were around section Poor Indexing Strategies and that lead me to write about 10 Don’ts for Indexes. Let us talk about it today.

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slow performance

SQL SERVER – Top Reasons for Slow Performance

February 10, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Ad Hoc Query, Clustered Index, Disk, Query Hint, SQL CPU, SQL Data Storage, SQL DMV, SQL Function, SQL Index, SQL Memory, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL TempDB, SQL Utility

Yesterday, I had asked a very simple question on twitter about the top reasons for the slow performance. Let us discuss this topic today.

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RID Lookup

SQL SERVER – Heaps, Scans and RID Lookup

January 25, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, Execution Plan, SQL Heap, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

The question was do heaps are very bad and always force a table scan? Let us learn about RID Lookup, Heaps and table scan.

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RowStore

SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Batch Mode in RowStore

November 18, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, ColumnStore Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a pleasure to demonstrate to customers a Simple Example of Batch Mode in RowStore.

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fragementation

SQL SERVER – Sample Script to Check Index Fragmentation with RowCount

October 17, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Let us see a script built for one of my clients of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check to Check Index Fragmentation with RowCount.

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SELECT Queries

SQL SERVER – An Index Reduces Performance of SELECT Queries

May 28, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
Clustered Index, Instant Learning, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Training, Webinar

Can an Index reduce the performance of SELECT Queries?  Let me make this question a bit more complete and meaningful to you.

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Execution Plan Cost Breakdown.

SQL SERVER – Parallelism for Heap Scan

October 29, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, Parallel, SQL CPU, SQL Heap, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Every consulting engagement is different and I enjoy interacting with different people while I am working with different experts. Earlier this week, here is what I heard during one of the  Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement about Parallelism for Heap Scan.

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