Tuning and Optimizing Queries using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Short course
In London
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Short course
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Location
London
This three-day instructor-led workshop provides database developers working in enterprise environments using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 the knowledge and skills to evaluate and improve queries and query response times. The workshop focuses on systematic identification and optimization of database factors that impact query performance.
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Topics
- Importance of Benchmarking
- Key Measures for Query Performance: Sysmon
- Key Measures for Query Performance: Profiler
- Guidelines for Identifying Locking and Blocking
- Reviewing Tables and Scripts
- Determining Performance Baselines
- Prioritizing Identified Problems
- Describe best practices for measuring performance
- Describe the key Sysmon counters for problem identification
- Describe the key Profiler trace events for problem identification
- Select best methods for identifying which procedures are causing locking and blocking
- Review database tables and scripts
- Use a script to identify performance and concurrency problems
- Capture baseline performance
- Prioritize identified problems
Topics
- Performance Optimization Model
- Schema Optimization Strategy: Keys
- Schema Optimization Strategy: Responsible Denormalization
- Schema Optimization Strategy: Generalization
- Optimizing Memberships
- Optimizing Events
- Normalizing Event Sponsorships
- Denormalizing Membership Visits
- Cleaning Up Schema
- Adapting the Solution to the New Database Schema
- Determining Performance
- Explain the strategy for database optimization presented in the Performance Optimization Model
- Explain the importance of schema design in database optimization
- Describe the strategic use of natural and surrogate keys and their roles in schema optimization
- Describe responsible denormalization and the role of this strategy in schema optimization
- Describe generalization and the role of this strategy in schema optimization
- Normalize a database schema for optimization
- Generalize a database schema for optimization
- Denormalize a database schema for optimization
- Clean up database schema by verifying and adjusting data types and verifying referential integrity
- Convert data to the new schema
- Correct table and column names in queries, stored procedures, and triggers to reconcile schema changes
- Test for performance
Each query that is optimized improves the overall system because the query will use fewer resources, freeing up those resources for other queries, and reducing the amount of locking done by the query. The domino effect is profound.
Topics
- Performance Optimization Model: Queries
- What Is Query Logical Flow?
- Considerations for Using Subqueries
- Guidelines for Building Efficient Queries
- Optimizing and Rewriting Slow Performing Stored Procedures
- Optimizing and Rewriting Slow Performing Views
- Optimizing and Rewriting Slow Performing Non-Cursor Aggregate Queries
- Determining Performance
- Explain the importance of set-based solutions in database optimization
- Explain the utility of the query logical flow diagram in query optimization
- Discuss considerations when using subqueries in query optimization
- Describe strategies for building efficient queries
- Rewrite stored procedures for optimization
- Rewrite views for optimization
- Rewrite non-cursor aggregate queries for optimization.
- Test queries for performance
Topics
- Performance Optimization Model: Query-Set-based solutions
- Five Steps to Building a Cursor
- Strategies for Refactoring Cursors
- Refactoring the pMembershipCategory Cursor
- Refactoring the pCommunityImpact Cursor
- Refactoring the pMemberInvitation Cursor
- Determining Performance
- Explain the importance of set-based solutions in database optimization
- List five steps to building a cursor
- Describe strategies for refactoring cursors
- Refactor cursors into queries by rebuilding cursor logic as multiple queries, user-defined function, and complex queries with case expression
- Test queries for performance
Topics
- Performance Optimization Model: Indexes
- Considerations for Using Indexes
- Best Uses of the Clustered Index
- Best Practices for Non-Clustered Index Design
- How to Document an Indexing Strategy
- Identifying Tables to Optimize
- Designing Indexes
- Determining Performance
- Explain the importance of optimizing index strategies in database optimization
- Explain considerations for using indexes in database optimization
- Describe the best uses of clustered indexes as they relate to optimization
- Describe the best practices for designing non-clustered databases
- Explain the methodology for using an indexing strategy worksheet.
- Determine tables that need to be optimized based on slow running code
- Design, implement, and adjust clustered and non-clustered indexes
- Test for performance.
Topics
- Performance Optimization Model: Locking and Blocking
- Multimedia - "How to Use Efficient Queries to Reduce Locking and Blocking"
- Strategies to Reduce Locking and Blocking
- Identifying Code with Locking and Blocking Issues
- Reducing Concurrency Issues
- Determining Final Performance
- Explain the importance of concurrency management in database optimization
- Explain how efficient queries reduce locking and blocking
- List strategies for reducing locking and blocking
- Identify code with locking and blocking issues
- Tighten and optimize logical transactions in code with concurrency issues
- Adjust transaction isolation levels in code with concurrency issues
- Test database for performance.
- Determine percentage gain on database performance from baseline
Tuning and Optimizing Queries using Microsoft SQL Server 2005