June 2019
Beginner
48m
English
on-demand course
Introduction to SQL Server Query Optimization: Understanding Query Optimization and Built-in Optimization Tools
with Ed Pollack
Closed Captioning available in English
Overview
Begin your journey into query optimization by learning the basics of how SQL Server processes a query from start to finish. Once this foundation is established, you will focus on execution plans: What are they? How do we read them? And what are their more common operations? A variety of statistics options will be introduced that provide insight into query duration and the load that a given query presents on memory and storage resources.
With a set of tools defined, you will tackle a variety of common optimization challenges. You’ll review some common problems in which performance is inadequate and then solutions to mitigate those problems and improve performance. These basic patterns will provide a format for viewing and analyzing queries with the goal of being able to identify the source of the problem when a query is running too slow.
What You'll Learn
- Discover how SQL Server optimizes a query and generates an execution plan
- Enable, read, and decipher execution plans for query analysis
- Identify a variety of common execution plan operators
- Use STATISTICS IO to gauge query impact on memory and disk resources
- Measure query duration using STATISTICS TIME
- Analyze problem queries to find the source of performance problems
- Identify common query mistakes and how to quickly resolve them
Who This Video Is For
Database administrators, developers, or anyone who writes TSQL queries on a regular basis. For all database professionals who need to write efficient code that executes quickly while consuming minimal resources.
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