Question: Do Queries Always Respect Cost Threshold of Parallelism?
SQL SERVER – List Query Plan, Cache Size, Text and Execution Count
I love the curious questions from people who attended the class. Here is one such question during recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. Let us see the question which I received about the Query Plan.
SQL SERVER – Priority Boost and SSMS 18
Just the other day, I had a very interesting experience while using the latest SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 preview 7 (SSMS 18.0) during one of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. My client said they have realized that SQL Server does not have settings of Priority Boost settings available in SQL Server anymore. Actually, this is not true, let us quickly understand the same.Â
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 – How to Get Started with Docker Containers with Latest SQL Server?
Just last week, I had to present at SQLBits in Manchester, UK and I used Docker Containers for my SQL Server Presentations. I am an experienced presenter and I usually practice multiple times before I get on the stage to present on any subject. However, a day before the presentation, due to some reason, my docker container did not work and I had to redo my entire container. This is where the problems started for me.
Price Increase Alert – SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019
Just a quick note for everyone that if you have not signed up for my SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019, so far, the price is going to be increased by USD 100 from March 1st.



