Being a Database Developer or Administrator, often we work on Performance Optimization of the queries and procedures. It becomes very necessary that we focus on the right queries to get major benefits. Recently I was working on a Performance Tuning project. I started working based on query list provided by client. Client was referring the … Continue reading Tracking costliest queries
Category: Performance Tuning
Probing Columnstore Indexes
This article was first published on: 2020-03-14. This article will probe the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload for real-time analytics. We'll cover examples from each of the followings - Pivot, Aggregate Functions, Analytic Functions, Ranking Functions and Window Functions.
Clustered Index Key – Natural or Surrogate?
This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of an experiment.
Performance Tuning with Computed Columns
Computed Column can be utilized to optimize the query performance. It can be leveraged, to make the query sargeable, to make proper use of available indexes. In this article, we'll perform a test to see, how computed columns can help in performance tuning.
Pseudo Code for batch processing using WHILE LOOP
Leveraging WHILE LOOP
SQL Server Carpenter 