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11 Essential Tips for Avoiding Common SQL Server Performance Tuning Mistakes

February 1, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Data Type, Normalization, Software Development, SQL Backup, SQL Cursor, SQL Data Storage, SQL Index, SQL Server, SQL Server Security, SQL Statistics, Temp Table

This blog post will cover 11 tips for avoiding common SQL server mistakes. From indexing to security, these tips will help you optimize your database’s performance.

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Indexing for Delete

Indexing for Delete – SQL in Sixty Seconds #197

May 13, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Server

Today, we will see another interesting topic where the index affects the delete statement. Let us start watching the video Indexing for Delete. 

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Remove Key Lookup – SQL in Sixty Seconds #194

February 21, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
Execution Plan, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SSMS

Today, we are going to see one more trick from the book – Remove Key Lookup and improve the performance of queries.

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index performance

SQL SERVER – Measure Index Performance

October 27, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, SQL Index, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

My client reached out to me asking if there is a way to measure the performance of the newly created index. How to measure index performance. 

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Index with Compression

SQL SERVER – Rebuilding Index with Compression

September 1, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

We can be Rebuilding Index with Compression even if it was originally not created with compressions. Let us learn how we can do it today.

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prevent users

SQL SERVER – Prevent Users from Changing Index

August 24, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Trigger

Many people like this blog post and asked me to follow up questions about whether this method can be used to prevent users from changing the index.

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Specific Index

Queries Using Specific Index – SQL in Sixty Seconds #180

July 20, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL DMV, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Index, SQL Server

The challenge I face is that often DBAs ask me to prove that indexes are really not used by queries. Let us learn about Queries Using Specific Index.

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