Monday, December 28, 2015

SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips



1)    Index Analysis

Indexes are considered valuable for performance improvements. Analyse all your indexes to identify non-performing indexes and missing indexes that can improve performance.

 

2)    TempDB Space Review

Review the size and usage of your TempDB database.

 

3)    Database Files (MDF, NDF) and Log File Inspection

Review all the files and filegroups of each of your databases and analysis them to identify any object or files that are causing bottlenecks.

 

Reduce LDF File Size Steps:

CHECKPOINT -- flushes dirty pages to disk

DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS -- clears data cache

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE

1.right click on the database

2.goto properties--> click option--->Recovery model change to simple

3.Then run the query in query window example

( dbcc shrinkdatabase('SchoolManagementWORKING'))

4. Then right click database --> goto properties --> click option--> Recovery model change to full

 

4)    DBCC Best Practices Implementations

There are few DBCC commands to be avoided and few very crucial for system. Understand the usage of DBCC FREEPROCCACHE, DBCC SRHINKDATABASE, DBCC SHRINKFILE, DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFER, DBCC REINDEX, as well as the usage of few system stored procedures like SP_UPDATESTATS. If you are currently using any of the above mentioned and a few other DBCC maintenance task commands carefully review their usage.

 

5)    Specify the column name instead of * in select clause

 

6)    For filtering we need to use where clause at the same time  should not use Having clause until unless

We required to use aggregate functions.

 

7)    Instead of NOT In Operator we have to use Exists Operator.

 

8)    Avoid Indexing Small Tables

 

9)    Create Multiple-Column Indexes

 

      Multiple-column indexes are natural extensions of single-column indexes. Multiple-column indexes are useful for evaluating filter expressions that match a prefix set of key columns. For example, the composite index CREATE INDEX Idx_Emp_Name ON   Employees ("Last Name" ASC, "First Name" ASC) helps evaluate the following queries:
·         ... WHERE "Last Name" = 'Doe'
·         ... WHERE "Last Name" = 'Doe' AND "First Name" = 'John'
·         ... WHERE "First Name" = 'John' AND "Last Name" = 'Doe'
However, it is not useful for this query:
·         ... WHERE "First Name" = 'John'
When you create a multiple-column index, you should put the most selective columns leftmost in the key. This makes the index more selective when matching several expressions.

 


We recommend that you always create indexes on primary keys. It is frequently useful to also create indexes on foreign keys. This is because primary keys and foreign keys are frequently used to join tables. Indexes on these keys lets the optimizer consider more efficient index join algorithms. If your query joins tables by using other columns, it is frequently helpful to create indexes on those columns for the same reason.
When primary key and foreign key constraints are created, SQL Server Compact automatically creates indexes for them and takes advantage of them when optimizing queries. Remember to keep primary keys and foreign keys small. Joins run faster this way.

Use Indexes with Filter Clauses

Indexes can be used to speed up the evaluation of certain types of filter clauses. Although all filter clauses reduce the final result set of a query, some can also help reduce the amount of data that must be scanned.
A search argument (SARG) limits a search because it specifies an exact match, a range of values, or a conjunction of two or more items joined by AND. It has one of the following forms:
·         Column operator
·         operator Column
SARG operators include =, >, <, >=, <=, IN, BETWEEN, and sometimes LIKE (in cases of prefix matching, such as LIKE 'John%'). A SARG can include multiple conditions joined with an AND. SARGs can be queries that match a specific value, such as:
·         "Customer ID" = 'ANTON'
·         'Doe' = "Last Name"
SARGs can also be queries that match a range of values, such as:
·         "Order Date" > '1/1/2002'
·         "Customer ID" > 'ABCDE' AND "Customer ID" < 'EDCBA'
·         "Customer ID" IN ('ANTON', 'AROUT')
An expression that does not use SARG operators does not improve performance, because the SQL Server Compact query processor has to evaluate every row to determine whether it meets the filter clause. Therefore, an index is not useful on expressions that do not use SARG operators. Non-SARG operators include NOT, <>, NOT EXISTS, NOT IN, NOT LIKE, and intrinsic functions.

 



Sometimes you can rewrite a subquery to use JOIN and achieve better performance. The advantage of creating a JOIN is that you can evaluate tables in a different order from that defined by the query. The advantage of using a subquery is that it is frequently not necessary to scan all rows from the subquery to evaluate the subquery expression. For example, an EXISTS subquery can return TRUE upon seeing the first qualifying row.
 Note
The SQL Server Compact query processor always rewrites the IN subquery to use JOIN. You do not have to try this approach with queries that contain the IN subquery clause.
For example, to determine all the orders that have at least one item with a 25 percent discount or more, you can use the following EXISTS subquery:
SELECT "Order ID" FROM Orders O
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT "Order ID"
FROM "Order Details" OD
WHERE O."Order ID" = OD."Order ID"
AND Discount >= 0.25)
You can also rewrite this by using JOIN:
SELECT DISTINCT O."Order ID" FROM Orders O INNER JOIN "Order Details"
OD ON O."Order ID" = OD."Order ID" WHERE Discount >= 0.25

Limit Using Outer JOINs

OUTER JOINs are treated differently from INNER JOINs in that the optimizer does not try to rearrange the join order of OUTER JOIN tables as it does to INNER JOIN tables. The outer table (the left table in LEFT OUTER JOIN and the right table in RIGHT OUTER JOIN) is accessed first, followed by the inner table. This fixed join order could lead to execution plans that are less than optimal.

 

 

12) Use Parameterized Queries

If your application runs a series of queries that are only different in some constants, you can improve performance by using a parameterized query. For example, to return orders by different customers, you can run the following query:
SELECT "Customer ID" FROM Orders WHERE "Order ID" = ?
Parameterized queries yield better performance by compiling the query only once and executing the compiled plan multiple times. Programmatically, you must hold on to the command object that contains the cached query plan. Destroying the previous command object and creating a new one destroys the cached plan. This requires the query to be re-compiled. If you must run several parameterized queries in interleaved manner, you can create several command objects, each caching the execution plan for a parameterized query. This way, you effectively avoid re-compilations for all of them.












13) While there is case to use IN or BETWEEN clauses in the query, it is always advisable to use BETWEEN for better result.

14) Always avoid the use of SUBSTRING function in the query.


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