This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Some myths (like row locks escalating to page locks) persist, but challenging those yet again probably wouldn’t change much.
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SQL Server provides information for troubleshooting performance. Ed Pollack demonstrates collecting SQL Server performance monitor data.
2021-08-11
Another quick post of simple changes you can make to your code to create more optimal execution plans. This one is on implicit conversions. An implicit conversion is when...
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2019-04-17
Years ago, my first go-to tool for performance tuning was Performance Monitor: it was available everywhere, worked in all versions, and gave me a lot of useful information without paying for a monitoring tool. Since then, I’ve moved on – wait stats are a much better starting point – but there are still 3 good Perfmon counters that I rely on.
2019-02-13
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