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Finding Queries That Spill With total_spills in Query Stats

October 25, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL DMV, SQL Memory, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

Rank total_spills and recent counters, inspect plans, compare Query Store tempdb use, and investigate estimates before increasing grants.

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File Latency

Find Database File Latency – SQL in Sixty Seconds #198

June 15, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Data Storage, SQL DMV, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance

Lots of people asked me to create a video on my earlier blog post SQL SERVER – Script to List Database File Latency. Here is the video.

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MySQL Configuration Changes: Track What Changed and When

June 14, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Idera, MySQL, SQL Performance

MySQL configuration changes explain many sudden slowdowns. See how innodb_read_ahead_threshold works, what MySQL 8.0 records about a change and how to keep your own history.

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Database File Latency: Read and Write Stalls per IO

June 7, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Disk, SQL DMV, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts

Database file latency is the stall time per read or write. This post divides the IO stall columns by the call counts for every file, explains the zero queued columns and says when a number is worth acting on.

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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, SQL Server Management Studio

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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Date Variable

Performance Troubles – Function on Date Variable – SQL in Sixty Seconds #192

January 18, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance

However, I have a really good reason to use that. Today we are going to discuss Performance Troubles – Function on Date Variable.

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