This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros. In this video blog post, you will see a couple of tips and tricks related to SQL Server Extended Events Graphical User Interface. You will learn things like, Filtering, Grouping, Aggregation, Bookmarks, Saving/Opening Settings, Exporting XEvents data to a table, and more. Overall, the idea is to show you [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros SQL Server Management Studio 18.6 and Azure Data Studio July 2020 release, 1.20. Your favourite SSMS has been updated again. Version 18.6 is released. The long pending Database Diagram issue has been fixed along with couple of other fixes. There are new features too. Checkout the release notes. For [...]
In this blog post, we will observe Double Read Phenomenon in SQL Server. You will see how the same record is read twice in a single SELECT query/operation. First watch this video. Now, explanation. So why does this happen? Let’s go step by step. Step 1 First, user 1 fires an UPDATE in an explicit [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros If you want to find the top ‘n’ queries that are currently in the cache, which are consuming more CPU, then you are at the right place. sys.dm_exec_query_stats DMV contains all the information about the resource (CPU, Memory, I/O) consuming queries that are currently in the cache. We [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros If you want to identify non parameterized queries that are hogging your SQL Server plan cache then you are at the right place. sys.dm_exec_query_stats DMV becomes very handy when we are looking out for statistical information related to queries. Upon executing the above DMV, we will see a [...]
Deadlock Due To Bookmark Lookups In this blog post, we will see how deadlocks can happen in SQL Server due to Bookmark Lookups. Let’s create a dummy table WideWorldImporters & associated indexes. This will be our test data to play with. use WideWorldImporters GO -- create a opy of sales.customers select * into sales.customers2 from [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros In our previous blog posts, we have seen how to find fragmented indexes in a database and how to defrag them by using rebuild/reorganize. While creating or rebuilding indexes, we can also provide an option called “FILLFACTOR” which is a way to tell SQL Server, how much percentage [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros In our previous blog post, we got to know, how to find out all fragmented indexes in a database. Now we will see how to defrag indexes. According to Microsoft guidelines, based upon index fragmentation percentage, we may choose to either REORGANIZE, REBUILD indexes or just ignore. Here [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros We do create indexes to improve the search performance of our queries. But over a period of time, because of DML operations (inserts/deletes/updates), the data will get spread across the disc (Physical order of pages are NOT in sequence). This is called fragmentation. Watch this video by @A_Bansal [...]
This blog post first appeared on SQLMaestros Before we start fine tuning SQL Server, it is good to make sure all basic best practices are in place. One such best practice is to have a clustered index on every table in the database (well, not always but most of the times, having clustered index per [...]
