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SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization

SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization

By : Benjamin Nevarez
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SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization

SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization

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By: Benjamin Nevarez
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Overview of this book

SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications. This book starts by describing the inner workings of the query optimizer, and will enable you to use this knowledge to write better queries and provide the query engine with all the information it needs to produce efficient execution plans. As you progress, you’ll get practical query optimization tips for troubleshooting underperforming queries. The book will also guide you through intelligent query processing and what is new in SQL Server 2022. Query performance topics such as the Query Store, In-Memory OLTP and columnstore indexes are covered as well. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to get the best possible performance for your queries and applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Query Tuning and Optimization
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Query Tuning and Optimization
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Query Processor Architecture
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Analyzing execution plans
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Getting plans from a trace or the plan cache
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SET STATISTICS TIME and IO statements
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Troubleshooting Queries
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Chapter 2: Troubleshooting Queries
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DMVs and DMFs
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SQL Trace
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Extended events
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The Data Collector
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Summary
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Chapter 3: The Query Optimizer
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Chapter 3: The Query Optimizer
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Query optimization research
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Introduction to query processing
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The sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info DMV
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Parsing and binding
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Simplification
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Trivial plan optimization
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Joins
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Transformation rules
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The Memo
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Statistics
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Full optimization
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Summary
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Chapter 4: The Execution Engine
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Chapter 4: The Execution Engine
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Data access operators
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Aggregations
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Joins
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Parallelism
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Updates
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Summary
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Chapter 5: Working with Indexes
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Chapter 5: Working with Indexes
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Introduction to indexes
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Creating indexes
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Understanding index operations
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The Database Engine Tuning Advisor
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Missing indexes
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Index fragmentation
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Unused indexes
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Summary
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Chapter 6: Understanding Statistics
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Chapter 6: Understanding Statistics
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Exploring statistics
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Histograms
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A new cardinality estimator
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Cardinality estimation errors
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Incremental statistics
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Statistics on computed columns
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Filtered statistics
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Statistics on ascending keys
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UPDATE STATISTICS with ROWCOUNT and PAGECOUNT
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Statistics maintenance
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Cost estimation
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Summary
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Chapter 7: In-Memory OLTP
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Chapter 7: In-Memory OLTP
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In-memory OLTP architecture
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Tables and indexes
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Natively compiled stored procedures
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Limitations and later enhancements
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Chapter 8: Understanding Plan Caching
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Chapter 8: Understanding Plan Caching
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Batch compilation and recompilation
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Exploring the plan cache
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Understanding parameterization
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Parameter sniffing
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Parameter-sensitive plan optimization
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Summary
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Chapter 9: The Query Store
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Chapter 9: The Query Store
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Using the Query Store
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Querying the Query Store
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Chapter 10: Intelligent Query Processing
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Chapter 10: Intelligent Query Processing
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Overview of intelligent query processing
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Memory grant feedback
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Cardinality estimation feedback
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Degree of parallelism feedback
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Interleaved execution
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Table variable deferred compilation
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Adaptive joins
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Chapter 11: An Introduction to Data Warehouses
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Chapter 11: An Introduction to Data Warehouses
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Data warehouses
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Star join query optimization
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Columnstore indexes
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Summary
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Chapter 12: Understanding Query Hints
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Chapter 12: Understanding Query Hints
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Breaking down complex queries
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Hints
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Joins
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Aggregations
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FORCE ORDER
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The INDEX, FORCESCAN, and FORCESEEK hints
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FAST N
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The NOEXPAND and EXPAND VIEWS hints
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Plan guides
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USE PLAN
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Breaking down complex queries

As we saw in Chapter 3, The Query Optimizer, in some cases, the SQL Server query optimizer may not be able to produce a good plan for a query with a large number of joins. The same is true for complex queries with both joins and aggregations. However, because it is rarely necessary to request all the data in a single query, a good solution for those cases could be to just break down a large and complex query into two or more simpler queries while storing the intermediate results in temporary tables. Breaking down complex queries this way offers several advantages:

  • Better plans: Query performance is improved because the query optimizer can create efficient plans for simpler queries.
  • Better statistics: Because one of the problems of some complex plans is being able to degrade intermediate statistics, breaking down these queries and storing the aggregated or intermediate results in temporary tables allows SQL Server to create new statistics, greatly...
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