Since I started playing with Extended Events, it has been my favorite toy for performance troubleshooting. It was introduced in SQL Server 2008, and it provides a very rich method of collecting diagnostic data from SQL Server. You can get in-depth detailed information using extend event for troubleshooting which was never possible with SQL Trace. […]
SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART4 – INSTALL SQL SERVER AGENT ON RHEL
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In my previous tips, I explained about install RHEL Server on the virtual machine, install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Install SQL Server Command-Line Tools on RHEL. In this tip, I will explain how to install SQL Server Agent on a Linux server, so we can create SQL Server jobs to schedule repetitive work. […]
SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART3 – INSTALL SQL SERVER COMMAND-LINE TOOLS ON RHEL
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As installing SQL Server on Linux doesn’t install SQL Server command-line tools by default. So, you have to install it separately. In my previous tips of this series, I discussed how to create a virtual machine using Windows Hyper-V, how to install RHEL on the created virtual machine, and how to install SQL Server on the RHEL […]
SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART2 – INSTALL SQL SERVER ON RHEL
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In the previous blog, we discussed how to install RHEL Server on the virtual machine. In this quick tutorial, we will install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Connect to the RHEL virtual machine and log on to the server by keying username and password Switch to root user (superuser) su root […]
SQL Server on Linux Installation On RHEL Server – PART1
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In the previous posts, we learned how to install SQL Server on Ubuntu Server & install SQL Server on CentOS. Today, we’ll walk through how to install SQL Server on RHEL Server. At the end of this blog, you will be familiar with the installation of SQL Server on RHEL system. Let’s hop over to my previous blog “how […]
SQL Operation Studio Tool
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Microsoft finally has launched most awaited tool – SQL Operation Studio (aka OpsStudio)!!! SQL Operation studio is a lightweight open source multi-os and multi-RDBMS tool. It provides a modern & intuitive database management experience on their platform of choice to DBAs, Developers, and Sysadmins. It also simplifies configuration, management and monitoring and troubleshooting for SQL […]
Finding Input Parameters in an Execution Plan
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The query execution plan is a map of work which SQL Server is going to perform to execute a query. It provides a lot of useful information like operators, cost, estimated rows, actual rows, predicate details, parallelism, and much more information to troubleshoot the performance issue. During the troubleshooting of the performance issues, I would […]
Figuring out Time-Out Prone queries
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Recently, I was helping one of the community attendees on the SQL Server Query Time-Out issue. Once we are done with troubleshooting, he asked a very excellent question; “I am dealing with very critical OLTP systems. As my company has been expanding the business, the data is rapidly growing. It is causing a lot of […]
Getting Query Execution Statistics
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If you hate things that are slow, I bet you certainly want to know the reason for the slowness. So, if you are SQL Developer and your query run slow, you would prefer to have query execution statistics so that you can figure out what causing the query to run slow. To get the query execution statistics, […]
Over-Indexing can hurt your SQL Server performance
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Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked topic. In order to improve your queries (applications) and databases performance, we create indexes. But those created indexes may not be very useful over the period because of your application requirement changes, the queries against […]