How to Post Performance Problems

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Are you sure that the server's SQL 2005 or 2008? The save-as will be greyed out if the server is SQL 2000. If that's the case, follow the steps for SQL 2000.

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MattieNH SSCertifiable Points: 7463 More actions · Answer 2

Gail,

That's why you're the exceptional DBA, or at least one of the judges. That's exactly it, almost all of our databases are still 2000, and this is one of them. I'm just so entrenched in using QA/EM for 2000, and SSMS for 2008, and I forget that it's the database, not the IDE.

Thanks so much,

Mattie

Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 3

Great article Gail.

I'll add it to my forum signature :w00t:

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Nice article Gail.

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Dugi SSCoach Points: 17998 More actions · Answer 5

The Article is very nice and perfect organized. Thanks for sharing!

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

This article should be republished once every 3-6 months.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 7

I'll go one step further... This article and its T-SQL Equivalent should be sticky noted to the beginning of most of the forum selections.

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moojjoo SSC Eights! Points: 957 More actions · Answer 8

Thank you for the great article. Can you post a second portion on how a deveoper should truely read a execution plan and how to tune. I am starting to believe this is a rare talent and being able to do this is a very great skill. I spent all day yesterday reading on clustered - (aka b-tree) and non-clusted (Heap) Indexes.

I still have not been able to get any performance gains.

Manie Verster SSCertifiable Points: 7152 More actions · Answer 9

Hi Gail, I agree that this is an article that will add much value (if people will just read it) to posting performance and actually any problems on this forum. I think that people need to know how to ask questions.

:-PManie Verster
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Thomas LeBlanc SSCrazy Eights Points: 8085 More actions · Answer 10

Excellent article.

I believe these people are just like me when I became a DBA. You never have seen a 3000 line SP, then you are asked to look into it.

The first key I received was from a fellow developer/DBA. He showed me how he highlighted a couple of lines of the SP, and just ran that part. At that point in time, I never 'knew' that I could debug a SP that way.

That event opened my mind to the possibility there were other ways to debug T-SQL code.

I then 'sought out' more ways to performance tune T-SQL, which lead me to SQLServerCentral.com, free books Red-Gate sponsored, PASS Summit, etc. etc. etc.

Thanks SQL Server community,

Thomas

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T.Ashish SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4248 More actions · Answer 11

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Nice Read...

quackhandle1975 SSChampion Points: 11055 More actions · Answer 12

Brilliant article, enjoyed reading this.

I will also give a link to this to any SQL developers to read and hopefully they will act on it.

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Steven Willis SSCrazy Eights Points: 9893 More actions · Answer 13

Thanks Gail. I'll add my kudos too. One addition that would be very helpful would be examples for presenting executable sample data. Not only does that help the helpers, but I suspect it will force the poster to think a bit more before posting such questions.

Too many times I (or another poster) have had to guess at what the source data looks like and spend time making something up for testing then find out that we have gone in an entirely wrong direction. Why don't users just give us their sample data up front? Some examples of various methods for creating sample data might be a worthy subject.

Good job! 🙂

j-1064772 SSCertifiable Points: 5316 More actions · Answer 14

I would not worry about people complaining on the amount of effort required to provide the information required to solve - for free - their problem. If it is not worth their own time to ask a clear question, it is not worth anyone else's time to work on a free solution.

Excellent article.

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