SQL Server: Common Performance Issue Patterns
Learn how to recognize and diagnose more than 35 types of performance problems that can affect SQL Server; applicable to developers, DBAs, and anyone responsible for SQL Server, from SQL Server 2005 onwards
What you'll learn
There are a wealth of problems that can affect the performance of SQL Server workloads, and this course shows you more than 35 common performance issue patterns. With 17 detailed demos, you're shown how to recognize each pattern along with practical troubleshooting guidance that you can use. The course starts with high-level issues around people and practices, before moving to technical areas like I/O, concurrency, memory, and CPU. The course also has modules on specific areas like tempdb, application design, and factors that can affect query plan quality. This course is perfect for developers, DBAs, and anyone responsible for SQL Server, from complete beginners through to those with more experience who want a fresh way to troubleshoot SQL Server. The information in the course applies to all versions from SQL Server 2005 onwards.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 1m
- Vendor Bias (1) 1m
- Vendor Bias (2) 2m
- Expertise Traps 1m
- Missing Data 1m
- Incomplete Data 1m
- Lack of Troubleshooting Methodology 1m
- Troubleshooting Downstream Issues 1m
- Ignoring Capacity Considerations (1-2) 2m
- Ignoring Capacity Considerations (3) 1m
- Failure to Enforce Standards 1m
- Missing Change Control 2m
- Module Introduction 1m
- External CPU Pressure 1m
- High Privileged Time 2m
- User-Time SQL Server CPU Time (1) 2m
- User-Time SQL Server CPU Time (2) 1m
- Demo: User-Time SQL Server CPU Time 4m
- I/O Correlated High CPU 1m
- Demo: I/O Correlated High CPU 3m
- Excessive Compilation and Recompilation (1) 1m
- Excessive Compilation and Recompilation (2) 2m
- Demo: Excessive Compilation and Recompilation 3m
- Observer Overhead 3m
- Demo: Observer Overhead 3m
- Uninvited Parallelism 2m
- Demo: Uninvited Parallelism 3m
