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SQL Server Performance - what it takes for a newbie DBA in resolving performance issues?

Published 5 February 8 2:57 AM | SSQA.net

SQL Server Performance Tuning, sounds familiar on a DBA perspective and though it sounds like an easy words but when you start analyzing the problem it is far deeper inside. When you refer to the web resources such as forums/newsgroups then a common question...

Filed under: sql server, performance, blogs, blocking, security, query, best practice, index plan, sql server central, newsgroups, forums

Performance - check whether it is affecting application or system, don't blame SQL Server alone

Published 3 September 7 9:42 AM | SSQA.net

Its a general assumption that whenever performance is degraded, the finger will be pointed to SQL Server, pretty easy eh!? If you look at any of the SQL Server related forums then 3 in 10 questions asks same question and nothing but shove blame on SQL...

Filed under: application, sql server, performance, blocking, security, query, table, wait, queue, high cpu, oltp

Unused indexes on a database, its good and bad

Published 27 July 7 8:51 AM | SSQA.net

You may be aware that the indexes on a SQL Server database take up space, so in case of unused indexes its obvious that they waste storage. It is easy to find the indexes using SP_HELPINDEX statement against a table, so to identify the unused indexes...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, security, query, unused indexes

Usage and good practices with UPDATE STATISTICS feature in SQL 2005

Published 23 July 7 5:39 AM | SSQA.net

UPDATE STATISTICS is very helpful to get the performance by updating the distribution of key values for one or more statistics groups or set of collections in the specified table or indexed view. So how this is handled within the SQL Server, you may be...

Filed under: performance, security, dmv, query, optimization, tsql, statistics, update statistics