How to solve a SQL

performance problem
Paul Zgondea

Agenda
DBA monitoring tools
Finding the culprit
Optimization time

First Response of a DBA

What do you do when somebody asks you to investigate
whats stressing out the SQL server?
What tools do you use ?
What do you do when the SQL Server is too busy to
accept your connection ?

Dedicated Admin Connection

Enable DAC
EXEC sp_configure 'remote admin connections', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

sp_whoisactive by Adam Machanic

Alternative for sp_who and sp_who2
Why its better:
Runs quickly and does not use a lot of resources.
Shows only the active queries (no sleeping and system
processes)
Shows how long the queries have been running for
Shows the formatted SQL Text and Plan (@get_plans = 1)
Shows waits information
Shows CPU, Tempdb information,

DEMO TIME

Capture the events

Extended events fast, asynchronous steep learning
curve.
SQL Trace / Profiler old method but still used
synchronous and it adds extra load on the server.

Analyze the captured data

Retrieve the captured data
Filter, clean and group data so we can analyze it
accordingly
Identify the most resource intensive queries

Optimization time!
Execution plan
Indexes
Re-writes
Testing the final result

DEMO TIME