1. Top Tuning Tools for SQL Server Kevin Kline & Aaron Bertrand SQL Sentry

2. 2 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com Aaron Bertrand @AaronBertrand@AaronBertrand Senior Consultant Microsoft MVP since 1997 Author, MVP Deep Dives 1 & 2 http://sqlblog.com/ http://sqlperformance.com/ http://sqlsentry.com/ About Us Kevin Kline @kekline@kekline Director, Engineering Services Microsoft MVP since 2003 Author, SQL in a Nutshell and 11 more http://KevinEKline.com http://SQLSentry.TV

3. 3 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com Agenda SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Free Features PRO Features Hairy Execution Plan contest winners SQL Sentry Performance Advisor Helping automate problem query detection SQL Server 2014 Features Buffer Pool Extension Enhanced Cardinality Estimator Bonus Tips A couple of simple tips to see immediate query benefits

4. 4 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Plan Explorer download: http://sqlsentry.com/plan-explorer Many of these demos can be downloaded: http://sqlperformance.com/updated-plan-explorer-demo-kit PluralSight Course by Jonathan Kehayias: http://bit.ly/PETraining

5. 5 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com SQL Sentry Performance Advisor Best in class performance monitoring and alerting. v8 adds: Intelligent Alerting Custom Conditions Configurable Baselines Low Overhead: http://downloads.sqlsentry.com/downloads/SQLSentryOverheadAnalysi s.doc http://downloads.sqlsentry.com/downloads/SQLSentryOverheadAnalysi s.doc Performance Advisor download: http://sqlsentry.com/download-trial/trial Demonstration Videos at: http://sqlsentry.tv

6. 6 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com SQL Server 2014 Features Buffer Pool Extensions Extend buffer pool to SSDs to act somewhat like memory Great solution for large databases on servers with SSD but limited RAM Enhanced Cardinality Estimator Much better estimation, leading to better query plans in most cases Demo

7. 7 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com Bonus Tips : Two Easy Performance Boosts SET NOCOUNT ON Turns off n row(s) affected / DONE_IN_PROC noise Non-default cursor options Demo

8. 8 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com Bonus Tips : Making dev like production DBCC AUTOPILOT / SET AUTOPILOT ON Create hypothetical indexes in production Stats-only (clone) database http://bit.ly/StatsOnlyDB DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF Fool SQL Server into believing your dev box is more or less powerful Demo

9. 9 © SQLintersection. All rights reserved. http://www.SQLintersection.com THANK YOU! Contact: kkline@sqlsentry.com abertrand@sqlsentry.com kkline@sqlsentry.com abertrand@sqlsentry.com