Performance Tuning and Optimizing SQL Databases

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The Performance Tuning and Optimizing SQL Databases course is designed to equip learners with the knowledge and skills required to maintain and optimize the performance of SQL Server databases. This SQL performance tuning course delves into the intricacies of SQL Server architecture, including components, scheduling, and wait events. It covers a broad range of topics, from the fundamentals of SQL Server I/O, database structures, and memory management to the more advanced concepts of concurrency, transactions, and query plan analysis.Participants will learn how to analyze and troubleshoot performance issues using tools such as Extended Events and the Query Store, understand the importance of accurate statistics and indexing strategies for query optimization, and explore techniques for caching and recompilation to improve execution plans. By completing this comprehensive performance tuning course, learners will develop a strong foundation in identifying and solving performance bottlenecks, ensuring their SQL databases run efficiently and effectively.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand SQL Server Components, SQL OS, and the differences between Windows and SQL Scheduling to enhance server performance.
  • Learn how to interpret waits and queues to identify performance bottlenecks within SQL Server.
  • Master core I/O concepts, implement optimal storage solutions, and conduct effective I/O setup and testing.
  • Gain knowledge of SQL Server database structure, data file, and TempDB internals to optimize database design.
  • Explore Windows and SQL Server memory management techniques, including In-Memory OLTP, to improve memory usage.
  • Analyze concurrency and transaction concepts in SQL Server, focusing on locking internals to prevent and resolve conflicts.
  • Dive into statistics internals, cardinality estimation, index internals, and columnstore indexes to refine data retrieval methods.
  • Understand query execution and optimizer internals, analyze execution plans, and leverage adaptive query processing.
  • Learn about the plan cache, troubleshoot plan cache issues, and utilize automatic tuning and the query store for performance maintenance.
  • Utilize Extended Events for advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning, and implement monitoring, tracing, baselining, and benchmarking for proactive server management.