Knee-Jerk Performance Tuning: Incorrect Use of Temporary Tables
Paul Randal continues his knee-jerk performance tuning series, focusing on ways to optimize performance when using temporary tables.
2016-04-25
6,231 reads
Performance Tuning
Know read and write ratio before you tune database performance
A script to get the user table query ratio and update radio,etc
2015-12-21 (first published: 2015-12-11)
1,780 reads
Show running queries
Identify the current statement and its line number within a running batch. Includes a link to the execution plan, if available.
2016-08-08 (first published: 2015-03-03)
5,444 reads
Webinar: Performance Tuning .NET & SQL Code Using ANTS Performance Profiler
In this LIDNUG webinar, Mitchel Sellers walks through performance tuning best practices, and investigates how developers can use ANTS Performance Profiler to explore their application code and the SQL queries and execution plans behind it.
2014-12-05
7,720 reads
Premature Optimisation
Learning how to tune a system is a bit of science and a bit of an art. Gail Shaw gives some guidelines on when you might want to tune and how to go about it so as not to unnecessarily undertake the effort.
2014-09-22
5,897 reads
Find Currently Running Query – T-SQL
Following script retrieves the queries currently executing on the server.
2016-02-29 (first published: 2014-09-04)
3,371 reads
2014-02-06
1,441 reads
NameSQLinConfioIgnite (SolarWinds DPA)
This will name Ignite SQL hashes that have not been named yet, based on the object (or batch) they are within.
2015-02-18 (first published: 2014-01-25)
696 reads
Free eBook: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views
Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a significant and valuable addition to the DBA's troubleshooting armory, laying bare previously unavailable information regarding the under-the-covers activity of your database sessions and transactions.
2020-11-18 (first published: 2013-08-21)
108,349 reads
An Orders of Magnitude Problem (T-SQL Tuning)
When a query suddenly starts taking much longer, what do you do? This story from Jerry
2013-03-13
7,392 reads
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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