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Get details of SQL Server Database Growth and Shrink Events

SQL Shack

It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem. Traces provide performance data about tasks that are performed by invoking a series of services. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources.

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Performance Tuning Re-indexing and Update Statistics – A Case Study

SQL Server Performance

Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.

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Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 2

SQL Performance

For the time being, let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14. Database compatibility is set to 150, and the cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50 to avoid parallelism for now: ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION. When simple parameterization isn’t performed, the 1.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 3

SQL Performance

These types are on the deprecated list for many reasons, and have held a permanent spot on that list since being replaced by the max types way back in SQL Server 2005. Let's create a simple database with a few tables: CREATE DATABASE BadIdeas ; GO. The operation must be performed offline. USE BadIdeas ; GO.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

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