Have you ever found yourself in need of making queries go faster but didn't know where to begin? In this session, you will learn multiple ways to find your top offending statements. You will learn three key tips to help you understand execution plans. Finally, you will learn a framework to help you create indexes to help performance.

1. DBA Basics: Getting Started
with Performance Tuning
John Sterrett
CEO & Principal Consultant

2. About John Sterrett
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john@procuresql.com
@johnsterrett
johnsterrett.com
procuresql.com
linkedin.com/in/johnsterrett

3. Goal of Today’s Session
Arm anyone who is new to performance
tuning with processes and skills to
identify and solve some common
performance problems.

4. Today’s Agenda
Find Your Top Offenders
Understanding Execution Plans Basics
Index Framework to Improve Performance

5. The Typical Intro to Performance Tuning

6. Basic Query Runtime
Time
T1 : Resource not
available (Suspended
Query)
T2: Resource Now
Available. Back in
schedule queue.
(Runnable State)
T3: Continue Processing
(Resources acquired and
scheduled to run)
T3-T2
Signal Wait Time (Have resource
waiting to be scheduled to run)
T3-T1
Wait Time (Total waiting from
needing a resource to running
again)
Running
Suspended
Runnable

7. Meet the SQL Server Bottlenecks
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MEMORY DISK CPU
NETWORK LOCKING, BLOCKING & DEADLOCKS

8. When Do Top Offenders Matter?
Performance Problems NOW!
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Previous Performance Problem
Improve A Processes Performance
Migrations / Consolidation / Long Term

9. #PASSDataCommunitySummit
DEMO
Identify
Performance
Problems
Occurring
Right Now!

10. #PASSDataCommunitySummit
DEMO
Identify Top
Offenders
over the long
term!

11. Intro to Execution Plans

12. Cost and Thick Lines

13. Key Lookups

14. Implicit Conversions

15. Indexing Tuning Process
1. Identify Tables in Query
2. Identify Columns being Selected
3. Identify filters (HINT JOIN and WHERE)
4. Find total rows for each table used in the Query
5. Find selectivity (rows with filter / table rows)
6. Enable statistics io, time and the actual execution plan.
7. Run the Query and document your findings
8. Review existed indexes for filters and columns selected
9. Add index for lowest selectivity adding the selected columns
as included columns
10. Run the Query again and document your findings.
11. Compare findings with baseline.
12. Repeat last four steps as needed.

16. DEMO
Indexing
Basics

17. Free Tools for your Troubleshooting
Toolbelt
sp_WhoIsActive
Sp_BlitzIndex
Query Store

18. For links videos and more go to
https://johnsterrett.com/
John Sterrett (MCT)
John@ProcureSQL.com
https://linktr.ee/John.Sterrett
@JohnSterrett