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SQL Server Performance issues with Fragmentation and heavy usage of TEMPDB?

Published 15 May 8 3:59 AM | SSQA.net

Whenever a performance issue occurs on the SQL Server database best option for diagnosing and troubleshooting common problems by using publicly available tools such as Profiler, System Monitor (Perfmon), and Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server...

Filed under: sql server, performance, dmv, best practices, tempdb, monitoring, benchmarking, performance monitoring

SQL Server configuration disk layout - best practices from field

Published 3 April 8 3:17 AM | SSQA.net

Configuration of server such as disk and memory is an important factor for SQL Server Performance, there is all about questions within newsgroups and forums that how do I setup the disk layout for a SQL Server database (say, 2005 version). Not only this...

Filed under: sql server, performance, data, log, disk, best practices, tempdb, monitoring, configuration, layout

SQL Server 2005 PERFMON counter spikes in Transactions/sec and Buffer Cache Hit ratio, what does it say?

Published 14 March 8 4:16 AM | SSQA.net

Recently I was involved in one of the Performance Audit exercise at a client's place where they complain about Server CPU is always HIGH and what they have observed is even the physical disk where TEMPDB is located has been used extensively, as they...

Filed under: sql server, perfmon, performance, dmv, cache, buffer, sysmon, tempdb, monitoring, temp tables, worktables, workfiles, ratio

SQL server Temporary Tables, Table Variables and Recompiles - interesting scenario

Published 17 January 8 2:23 AM | SSQA.net

Usage of Temporary tables or variables is a common scenario in SQL Server world, since SQL Server 2005 usage of TEMPDB references to the blog posts here: http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/04/05/sql-server-index-optimization-best-practices...

Filed under: sql server, performance, msdn, blocking, maintenance plan, tempdb, tablesample, best practice, monitoring, FAQ, benchmarking, table variable, temp tables

Update statistics causing negative performance

Published 17 August 7 8:11 PM | SSQA.net

Recently we have seen a negative performance for a query that is running against a 500GB size of database, where AUTO UPDATE STATISTICS is enabled and we perform weekly reindexing on this database. In addition to this I perform intermittent update statistics...

Filed under: sql server, performance, log, index, tempdb, best practice, update statistics, fragmentation

DMVs to provide state of TEMPDB during a performance tuning analysis

Published 14 August 7 8:55 AM | SSQA.net

TEMPDB - though the name sounds like temporary database, it most important for any user database! Coming to performance tuning exercise or analysis you would go through Task Manager initially to see how system's memory & processor are coping up...

Filed under: sql server, performance, analysis, index, rebuild, tempdb, hardware