This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Some myths (like row locks escalating to page locks) persist, but challenging those yet again probably wouldn’t change much.
2022-09-19
SQL Server provides information for troubleshooting performance. Ed Pollack demonstrates collecting SQL Server performance monitor data.
2021-08-11
Another quick post of simple changes you can make to your code to create more optimal execution plans. This one is on implicit conversions. An implicit conversion is when...
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2019-04-17
Years ago, my first go-to tool for performance tuning was Performance Monitor: it was available everywhere, worked in all versions, and gave me a lot of useful information without paying for a monitoring tool. Since then, I’ve moved on – wait stats are a much better starting point – but there are still 3 good Perfmon counters that I rely on.
2019-02-13
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By Steve Jones
The more I look to GenAI to save me minutes, short periods of time,...
By Brian Kelley
I will be back in Seattle this year attending the 2025 PASS Data Community...
By Steve Jones
Another of our values is this: Motivation isn’t about carrots and sticks. Constant oversight...
Is there a way to force a query to use Batchmode execution, my database...
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