Category Archives for "SQL Server"

Sep 07

September 2010 Tip of the Month

By SQLRx Admin | Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

Performance Monitor: Monitor the performance counters SQLServer:Buffer Manager (Page reads/sec) and SQLServer:Buffer Manager (Page writes/sec) to detect poor performance. These counters measure physical IOs and not logical IOs. Heavy activity can indicate lack of database memory, a poor table implementation or can show that applications are not accessing a database correctly. Monitoring these counters will […]

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Jun 07

June 2010 Tip of the Month

By SQLRx Admin | Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

SQL Server Administration: SQL Server keeps track of indexes that it thinks it needs in order to optimize queries. But there are several “missing index” dynamic management views that give valuable information. Find missing indexes with this query. Always test the suggested indexes, as they do not always help, and are only suggestions. SELECT mig.index_group_handle, […]

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