Should You Rebuild or Reorganize Indexes on Large Tables? (Dear SQL DBA Episode 19)
Category:
indexing
, sql-server
The bigger your indexes are, the harder your index maintenance falls. Is it better to rebuild big indexes? Or should you reorganize?
Books to Learn SQL Server Performance Tuning and Database Design
Category:
query-performance
I get a lot of requests about which books are helpful to learn performance tuning and database design. I totally get that – I still like learning with books. It doesn’t mean training videos or blogs are any less cool. They can all work together.
Can I Use Statistics to Design Indexes? (Dear SQL DBA Episode 18)
Category:
query-performance
Should you look at automatically created statistics on your tables in SQL Server to help you design better indexes? Learn why in this 20 minute video, or subscribe to the Dear SQL DBA podcast.
No time to watch? Scroll on down, everything is written in article form below the video.
Here’s this week’s question:
Last Minute Coupon Code for 2016 SQLPASS Summit
Category:
indexing
I can’t wait to teach my full day course, SQL Server Index Formulas: Problems and Solutions in Seattle at the PASS Summit on Tuesday, October 25th. Woot! Less than 3 weeks away!
Track Query Tuning Progress and History in Plan Explorer
Category:
query-performance
As you tweak and test queries, it’s awfully useful to see how the performance has changed.
Setting up Free Blocking Alerts and Deadlock Monitoring (Dear SQL DBA Episode 17)
Category:
query-performance
, sql-server
What tools in SQL Server will notify you about blocking and help track the queries behind your toughest blocking and deadlocking problems?
Measuring Query Duration: SSMS vs SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
Category:
query-performance
Every query tuner wants to explain exactly how much faster we made a query.
But sometimes SQL Server Management Studio adds noticeable overhead to the query duration. For relatively fast queries that return more than a few rows, just the overhead of displaying the results can skew your duration metric.