You are in a DBA, Developer or Consultant role, supporting SQL Server Databases and often someone asks you to take a look at a badly performing database application, certain queries or even “the whole server”. And over and over again you find yourself in the situation of “how to find the root cause in the least amount of time”.
This full-day Precon will teach you techniques for general troubleshooting and performance analysis from start-up to advanced techniques.
Among them are:
• SQL Server Architecture & Internals – the fundament to understanding complex correlations
• Monitoring Methodology, Tools & Techniques
o Dynamic Management Views (DMVs)
o Wait Statistics
o Extended Events for Workload & Query-Analysis
o Query Store
• Investigating Memory Problems
• Identifying and Remediating Plan Regression
• Analysis of Indexes & Statistics
• Detecting I/O Latency problems
• Investigating Tempdb Performance
• Locking & Blocking Analysis, Concurrency problems

While no one has evolved into a Performance-Tuning-Master in one single day, you can be sure to learn valuable techniques and concepts to build upon for day-to-day work. And of course, we will also discuss possible solutions or even implement them live. So, at your next phone call “Help, the server is slow!” you know will where to start.
Expect lots of demos and a deep dive into core concepts of SQL Server.

Hands-on: If you want to play along, please bring a laptop running at least SQL Server 2019, with at least 5GB of free drive space for the demo databases and workload. But you are welcome to just sit back and consume this one fully packed one day Precon.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the SQL Server relational engine and Transact-SQL, Basic familiarity with Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Query Plans