Question: How to List Dirty Pages From Memory in SQL Server? Answer: I received question today during my SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop.
SQL SERVER – Audit Script to Get CPU and Memory Information with MAXDOP Guidelines
If you are reading this blog regularly the name of Dominic Wirth may not be new for you. He has in the past sent some very interesting scripts for audit for our blog and I am including his new script in this blog which is about how to Get CPU and Memory Information with MAXDOP Guidelines.
SQL SERVER – When You Should Not Attend SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE?
So far many of you know that my SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE is extremely popular and it is almost full when I am writing this email. I can now accommodate a maximum of 5 individuals in the class as we are reaching capacity. However, yesterday I received a very interesting email which asked me a specific question about the word EVERYONE. Let us read the exact text of the email so you get a clear idea:
How to Know When Memory Constraints are Negatively Impacting CPU in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #216
Question: How to Know When Memory Constraints are Negatively Impacting CPU in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – Default Worker Threads Per Number of CPUs
During my recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, someone asked, how do they know what is the automatically configured max worker threads.
SQL SERVER – Query Listing All the Indexes Key Column with Included Column
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 – How to Optimize Your Server Performance by Reducing IO Waits?
SQL Server performance tuning is often considered as a complex subject and many DBAs and Developers often sees SQL Server Engines as a black box. However, the reality is very different as SQL Server Performance tuning is often a simple art of balancing three of the important resources for any system – 1) CPU, 2) Memory and 3) IO. In this blog post, we will discuss how we can reduce critical waits for queries and optimize server performance.