Azure SQL Database: Diagnosing Performance Issues with DMVs
Learn how to easily query Azure SQL Database for performance and configuration information to help identify and fix issues that can affect performance and stability. This course is applicable to anyone responsible for Azure SQL Database.
What you'll learn
It is very common for Azure SQL Databases to have workload performance problems. In this course, Azure SQL Database: Diagnosing Performance Issues with DMVs, you will learn how to use a variety of DMV queries to find performance and configuration information in Azure SQL Database. First, you will see how to diagnose and fix configuration issues at the database level. Next, you will discover how to diagnose and fix performance issues related to CPU and workload activity. Finally, you will explore how to find and fix issues related to storage and memory. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to use these DMV queries to increase the performance and stability of your workload on Azure SQL Database.
Table of contents
- Introduction and Database Properties 2m
- Demo: Database Properties 2m
- File Sizes and Space 1m
- Demo: File Sizes and Space 1m
- Database-scoped Configurations 1m
- Demo: Database-scoped Configurations 1m
- Table Properties 1m
- Demo: Table Properties 1m
- Query Store Options 2m
- Demo: Query Store Options 1m
- Automatic Tuning Options 2m
- Demo: Automatic Tuning Options 1m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introduction and Lock Waits 3m
- Demo: Lock Waits 1m
- Scalar UDF Statistics 2m
- Demo: Scalar UDF Statistics 1m
- Input Buffer 1m
- Demo: Input Buffer 1m
- Query Execution Counts 2m
- Demo: Query Execution Counts 1m
- SP Execution Counts 2m
- Demo: SP Execution Counts 1m
- SP Average Elapsed Time 2m
- Demo: SP Average Elapsed Time 1m
- Bad Nonclustered Indexes 2m
- Demo: Bad Nonclustered Indexes 1m
- Missing Indexes 3m
- Demo: Missing Indexes 3m
- Missing Index Warnings 2m
- Demo: Missing Index Warnings 1m
- Overall Index Usage - Reads 2m
- Demo: Overall Index Usage - Reads 1m
- Overall Index Usage - Writes 2m
- Demo: Overall Index Usage - Writes 1m
- Volatile Indexes 1m
- Demo: Volatile Indexes 1m
- Recent Resource Usage 2m
- Demo: Recent Resource Usage 1m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introduction and Buffer Usage 3m
- Demo: Buffer Usage 1m
- SP Logical Reads 2m
- Demo: SP Logical Reads 1m
- I/O Statistics by File 1m
- Demo: I/O Statistics by File 1m
- SP Physical Reads 2m
- Demo: SP Physical Reads 1m
- SP Logical Writes 1m
- Demo: SP Logical Writes 1m
- Top I/O Statements 1m
- Demo: Top I/O Statements 1m
- Module and Course Summaries 1m
About the author
Glenn works as a Principal Consultant at SQLskills.com. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2007, and he is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College - University of Denver. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware (Redgate 2011), and he wrote chapters for both SQL Server MVP Deep Dives books.
