A DBA guide to SQL Server performance troubleshooting – Part 1 – Problems and performance metrics

March 13, 2014 by

Monitoring SQL Server performance is a complex task, as performance depends on many parameters, both hardware and software. It’s recommended to monitor these parameters proactively in order to prevent any potential performance degradation. However, this is not always the case. If the performance degradation happens, the first step towards the resolution is to determine the […]

SQL Server disk performance metrics – Part 1 – the most important disk performance metrics

March 12, 2014 by

So far, we have presented the most important memory and processor metrics. These metrics indicate system and SQL Server performance, and are useful for troubleshooting performance issues and bottlenecks. Besides memory and processor metrics, equally important are SQL Server disk metrics. Sometimes a metric from one category can be masked by other events and be […]

SQL Server processor performance metrics – Part 4 – processor metrics useful for deeper investigation and troubleshooting

March 12, 2014 by

In the previous part of this series, we presented the processor metrics that indicate hardware component problems that can affect SQL Server performance In this part, we will present processor metrics that are not necessary in every performance monitoring scenario, but are useful for deeper investigation and troubleshooting

SQL Server processor performance metrics – Part 3 – measures that indicate hardware component problems

March 11, 2014 by

In the Part 1 and Part 2 of the SQL Server processor performance metrics series, we described the most important processor performance metrics – Processor: % Processor Time, Process: % Processor Time, Processor Queue Length, Processor: % User Time, Processor: %Privilege Time, as well as various total times and thread metrics

SQL Server processor performance metrics – Part 2 – Processor: % User Time, Processor: % Privilege Time, total times and thread metrics

March 11, 2014 by

In SQL server processor performance metrics – Part 1 – The most important cpu metrics, we described the Processor Queue Length and two most important processor time counters – Processor % Processor Time and Process % Processor time In this part, we will continue describing important time processor counters

SQL Server memory performance metrics – Part 6 – other memory metrics

March 10, 2014 by

So far, we have described the most popular and most important SQL Server memory metrics. Monitoring these metrics is recommended in every scenario when SQL Server performance monitoring and troubleshooting is needed. Besides the SQL Server Memory Manager metrics, the memory pressure can be indicated via the Buffer Manager metrics, as the buffer is the […]

SQL Server memory performance metrics – Part 5 – understanding Lazy Writes, Free List Stalls/sec, and Memory Grants Pending

March 7, 2014 by

We’ve started the SQL Server performance metrics series with the SQL Server memory metrics that should be monitored to indicate and help troubleshoot SQL Server performance issues In this part, we will continue with SQL Server memory performance metrics and present Lazy Writes, Free List Stalls/sec, and Memory Grants Pending

SQL Server memory performance metrics – Part 4 – Buffer Cache Hit Ratio and Page Life Expectancy

March 5, 2014 by

In SQL Server performance metrics – part 3, we presented some of the SQL Server Buffer Manager metrics. As the SQL Server buffer pool manages data cache, it’s important to monitor various buffer pool metrics as they help identify and solve memory pressure issues In this article, we will present 2 more Buffer Manager counters […]

SQL Server memory performance metrics – Part 3 – SQL Server Buffer Manager metrics and memory counters

March 3, 2014 by

In the previous parts of the SQL Server performance metrics series, we presented most important SQL Server memory metrics that indicate overall SQL Server memory pressure. The described metrics show how SQL Server uses memory and physical I/O to store, read and write data pages. In this part, we continue with SQL Server Buffer Manager […]

SQL Server memory performance metrics – Part 2 – available bytes, total server, and target server memory

February 21, 2014 by

In the first part of this series, we started with most important SQL Server performance memory metrics. We described Pages/sec and Page faults/sec, what they indicated, and what the normal values were In this part, we will present three more memory metrics that affect SQL Server performance – Available memory bytes, Total server memory, and […]

SQL Server Hardware Performance Tuning

April 14, 2020 by

SQL Server Performance Tuning can be a difficult assignment, especially when working with a massive database where even the minor change can raise a significant impact on the existing query performance. Performance Tuning always plays a vital role in database performance as well as product performance. A query can be optimized with the proper evaluation […]

Ranking Function Query with Result

Replace a SQL While loop and a cursor with ranking functions in SQL Server for better query performance

December 19, 2019 by

SQL While loop and cursor are the most common approach to repeat a statement on condition-based or determined limits. Loop and cursor can be utilized in a circumstance to deal with row-based processing in T-SQL. We generally observe moderate execution of old made procedures, which are composed of using loop and cursors. Those procedures take […]