Technical Article

Comprehensive SQL Performance Monitoring and Optimisation Script

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Purpose

The primary goal of this script is to monitor and report the execution statistics of SQL statements over a specified period, facilitating performance analysis and optimization. It captures essential metrics such as execution counts, CPU time, I/O operations, and elapsed time, offering a comprehensive view of query performance.

This script is an invaluable tool for diagnosing performance issues and identifying specific SQL queries that may be causing problems within the database.

The results can be copied directly from the SSMS data grid into Excel and then sorted by any of the captured statistics.

-- *************************************************************************************************
-- Author j.roberts 
-- Date 11 July 2024
-- Reports costs/statistics of SQL statements for given time on given database
-- *************************************************************************************************
GO  
DECLARE @Database      sysname = 'MyDb', -- Set the database name
        @MonitorPeriod varchar(10) = '01:00:00' -- 1 hour -- set this to the time period you want to monitor for
BEGIN    
    
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    SET ARITHABORT OFF;
    SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF;
    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED;    

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #CombinedResults;

    CREATE TABLE #CombinedResults
    (
        DBName sysname,
        QueryText varchar(MAX),
        Execution_count bigint,
        total_cpu_time bigint,
        total_IO bigint,
        total_physical_reads bigint,
        total_logical_reads bigint,
        total_logical_writes bigint,
        total_elapsed_time bigint,
        Identifier tinyint
       ,plan_handle varbinary(64) not null
       ,last_execution_time datetime
    );

    DECLARE @Iteration tinyint = 1;    
    WHILE @Iteration <= 2 BEGIN
        ;WITH PlanStats AS
        (
        SELECT st.dbid,
               st.text AS QueryText,
               cp.plan_handle,
               MAX(cp.usecounts) AS Execution_count,
               SUM(qs.total_worker_time) AS total_cpu_time,
               SUM(qs.total_physical_reads + qs.total_logical_reads + qs.total_logical_writes) AS total_IO,
               SUM(qs.total_physical_reads) AS total_physical_reads,
               SUM(qs.total_logical_reads) AS total_logical_reads,
               SUM(qs.total_logical_writes) AS total_logical_writes,
               SUM(qs.total_elapsed_time) AS total_elapsed_time,
               MAX(qs.last_execution_time) AS last_execution_time
        FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans cp
        INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs 
                ON cp.plan_handle = qs.plan_handle
        CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(cp.plan_handle) st
        WHERE DB_NAME(st.dbid) IS NOT NULL
          AND DB_NAME(st.dbid) LIKE @Database
        GROUP BY st.dbid, st.text, cp.plan_handle
        )
        INSERT INTO #CombinedResults
        SELECT DB_NAME(ps.dbid) AS DBName,
               ps.QueryText,
               SUM(ps.Execution_count) AS Execution_count,
               SUM(ps.total_cpu_time) AS total_cpu_time,
               SUM(ps.total_IO) AS total_IO,
               SUM(ps.total_physical_reads) AS total_physical_reads,
               SUM(ps.total_logical_reads) AS total_logical_reads,
               SUM(ps.total_logical_writes) AS total_logical_writes,
               SUM(ps.total_elapsed_time) AS total_elapsed_time,
               @Iteration AS Identifier
              ,ps.plan_handle
              ,max(ps.last_execution_time)
        FROM PlanStats ps
        GROUP BY ps.dbid, ps.QueryText, plan_handle;

        -- Wait for the specified monitoring period during the first iteration
        IF @Iteration = 1 BEGIN
            WAITFOR DELAY @MonitorPeriod;
        END

        SET @Iteration = @Iteration + 1;
    
    END        
  

-- ************************************************************************************************
-- Results
-- ************************************************************************************************

    SELECT ISNULL(A.DBName, B.DBName)                                            AS DBName,    
           ISNULL(A.QueryText, B.QueryText)                                      AS QueryText,    
           ISNULL(A.Execution_count, 0) - ISNULL(B.Execution_count, 0)           AS Execution_count,    
           ISNULL(A.total_cpu_time, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_cpu_time, 0)             AS total_cpu_time,            
           (ISNULL(A.total_cpu_time,0) - ISNULL(B.total_cpu_time, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.Execution_count,0) - ISNULL(B.Execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_cpu_time,
           ISNULL(A.total_IO, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_IO, 0)                         AS total_IO,             
           (ISNULL(A.total_IO,0) - ISNULL(B.total_IO, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.execution_count,0) - ISNULL(B.execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_total_IO,
           ISNULL(A.total_physical_reads, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_physical_reads, 0) AS total_physical_reads,         
           (ISNULL(A.total_physical_reads,0) - ISNULL(B.total_physical_reads, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.execution_count,0) - ISNULL(B.execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_physical_read,
           ISNULL(A.total_logical_reads, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_logical_reads, 0)   AS total_logical_reads,             
           (ISNULL(A.total_logical_reads, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_logical_reads, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.execution_count,0) - ISNULL(B.execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_logical_read,
           ISNULL(A.total_logical_writes, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_logical_writes, 0) AS total_logical_writes,             
           (ISNULL(A.total_logical_writes, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_logical_writes, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.execution_count,0) - ISNULL(B.execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_logical_writes,
           ISNULL(A.total_elapsed_time, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_elapsed_time, 0)     AS total_elapsed_time,            
           (ISNULL(A.total_elapsed_time, 0) - ISNULL(B.total_elapsed_time, 0)) / NULLIF(ISNULL(A.execution_count, 0) - ISNULL(B.execution_count, 0), 0) AS avg_elapsed_time,
           ISNULL(A.last_execution_time, A.last_execution_time) last_execution_time
      FROM (SELECT * FROM #CombinedResults WHERE Identifier = 2) A
      LEFT JOIN (SELECT * FROM #CombinedResults WHERE Identifier = 1) B
             ON A.DBName = B.DBName
            AND A.QueryText = B.QueryText
            AND A.plan_handle = B.plan_handle
     WHERE ISNULL(A.Execution_count, 0) - ISNULL(B.Execution_count, 0) <> 0
     ORDER BY 4 DESC;     

    DROP TABLE #CombinedResults;
END
GO

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