CPU Cost by Database (by Amit Bansal)
When you have dozens of databases hosted in a single instance, it helps to narrow down on databases that are contributing towards maximum CPU cycles.
Tracking Page Splits Using Extended Events (by Amit Bansal)
Even with the fastest of CPUs and Storage, Page Splits are still very bad. Also leads to fragmentation. Here is a quick video that shows how you can capture page splits using extended events.
Index Tuning – Page Splits & Fragmentation (by Amit Bansal)
Age old topic but still very important even in the age of SSDs. Watch the demo.
Index Tuning – Index Column Sort Order (by Amit Bansal)
Not sure whether to call this Query Tuning or Index Tuning, anyway, all that matters is we get improved performance. In this video you will see how that importance of column order in an index, especially the SORT mechanism.
Query Tuning – Implicit Conversion – Part 2 (by Amit Bansal)
This is a follow up video to part 1. In this quick video you will see that SQL Server is better off with explicit conversion at it likes it.
Query Tuning – Implicit Conversion – Part 1 (by Amit Bansal)
In this quick video you will understand the concept of implicit conversions and why are they bad for your query performance. This is Part 1.
How To Enable Global Trace Flags In SQL Server (by Amit Bansal)
In this quick video you will understand how to enable global trace flags.
SQL Server Memory Troubleshooting – Buffer Pool Usage (by Amit Bansal)
In this video you will understand how to find out the memory consumption by buffer pool and break it up further by databases and objects.
CPU Cost by Database (by Amit Bansal)
Tracking Page Splits Using Extended Events (by Amit Bansal)
Index Tuning – Page Splits & Fragmentation (by Amit Bansal)
Index Tuning – Index Column Sort Order (by Amit Bansal)
Query Tuning – Implicit Conversion – Part 2 (by Amit Bansal)
Query Tuning – Implicit Conversion – Part 1 (by Amit Bansal)
How To Enable Global Trace Flags In SQL Server (by Amit Bansal)
SQL Server Memory Troubleshooting – Buffer Pool Usage (by Amit Bansal)
