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SQLPASS Day 2- Optimization Timeouts and All about TLogs

Kendra wrote 2 weeks ago: SQLPass unfortunately can’t last forever, but happily it’s still going strong. Here … more →

Tags: Performance, Troubleshooting, execution plan, Optimizer, timeouts

SQL PASS Day 1: To Free or Not To Free the Proc Cache?

Kendra wrote 2 weeks ago: Yesterday was day 1 of SQL PASS 2009. I am attending a variety of sessions on execution plans this y … more →

Tags: execution plan, proc cache, procedure cache, #sqlpass

I Started a Fight2 comments

scarydba wrote 3 weeks ago: I had no idea, but evidently I started a bit of a donny-brook. Cool! … more →

Tags: NHibernate, plan cache

Hey, ho, where'd you go...

scarydba wrote 1 month ago: Ohio? I’m presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly min … more →

Tags: Pass, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Presentation, Presenting, understanding sql server execution plans, virtual presentations

Gila Monster on Estimated vs. Actual Row Counts

scarydba wrote 2 months ago: I don’t generally do lots of blog aggregation and cross post linking & stuff. It’s j … more →

Tags: TSql, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005, Performance Tuning, query tuning, estimated row count, actual row count

execution plans hints

umesh pandit wrote 2 months ago: Whenever any of your query performs slowly, you can view the estimated (And, actual if required) exe … more →

Tags: SQL

No Join Predicate10 comments

scarydba wrote 2 months ago: You could be looking at an execution plan on a query and see this message: Warning, No Join Predicat … more →

Tags: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSql, join predicate, Joins, Performance, Performance Tuning

Spools in Execution Plans4 comments

scarydba wrote 2 months ago: I got the question the other day, when are you likely to see a spool in an execution plan? Easy, whe … more →

Tags: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSql, execution plan operators, SQL Server, T-SQL

Who's Using All that Space in TempDb, and What's their Plan?

Kendra wrote 2 months ago: Whatcha Doing in My TempDb??? This post contains a script that I adapted from the fantastic SQL Serv … more →

Tags: Performance, Sample Code, execution plan, Troubleshooting

Rownum effects4 comments

Jonathan Lewis wrote 3 months ago: A few months ago, I wrote a note about setting the optimizer_mode to one of the first_rows_N values … more →

Tags: CBO, Hints

Execution Plan Compile Termination14 comments

scarydba wrote 4 months ago: Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of people with bad execution plans, desperately trying to tune … more →

Tags: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSql, Performance, Performance Tuning, query tuning, tuning

Distributed Queries8 comments

Jonathan Lewis wrote 4 months ago: Some time ago I wrote a note about distributed DML, pointing out that the driving_site() hint works … more →

Tags: Hints

Re-evaluating Execution Plans (again)

scarydba wrote 5 months ago: I keep thinking I’ve got a handle on the way execution plans are dealt with in SQL Server. I h … more →

Tags: TSql, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005, SQLServerPedia Syndication, execution plan, Performance, Performance Tuning

Explain VIEW12 comments

Jonathan Lewis wrote 5 months ago: A brief note on reading execution plans. ----------------------------------------------------------- … more →

Tags: tuning

sql server 2005 execution plans free ebook1 comment

Sql Server Collection wrote 5 months ago: Sql Server 2005 execution plans book- Disecting sql server exection plans is freely available at red … more →

Tags: exection palns, SQL Server 2005

Fixed Stats6 comments

Jonathan Lewis wrote 5 months ago: There was a question about the notorious dba_extents view on the comp.databases.oracle.server newsgr … more →

Tags: Performance, statistics, Troubleshooting, tuning

WHOOOP!16 comments

scarydba wrote 6 months ago: I just got the good word, I submitted an abstract for a spotlight session at the PASS Summit and it … more →

Tags: TSql, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005, Pass, Yippee, Yahoo, Woo hoo!!!, Yay!

Odd Filter2 comments

Jonathan Lewis wrote 6 months ago: A little while ago someone sent me a brief email about an odd section of execution plan that they ha … more →

Finding Plans and Stats for Queries like '%something%'

Kendra wrote 6 months ago: I often need to find a query plan in the cache for a process that has run long overnight. Typically … more →

Tags: Performance, Sample Code, Troubleshooting, execution time, worker time, query plans


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