1. Top Free Tools for Tuning SQL Statements Kevin Kline & Aaron Bertrand SQL Sentry, Inc.

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4. Session Evaluations ways to access Go to passsummit.com/evals Download the GuideBook App and search: PASS Summit 2014 Follow the QR code link displayed on session signage throughout the conference venue and in the program guide Submit by 11:59 PM EST Friday Nov. 7 to WIN prizes Your feedback is important and valuable. Evaluation Deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Sunday Nov. 16

5. About us 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/ 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

6. Agenda Tools for testing Tools for simulating production Tools for query plan analysis Tools for finding performance problems Tools for improving T-SQL

7. HammerDB SQLIOSIM SQLQueryStress IOMeter tSQLt Distributed Replay Tools for testing

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9. Stats-only clone DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF -P startup flag QUERYTRACEON query hint Tools for simulating production

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11. 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 Plan Explorer

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13. Adam Machanic’s sp_whoisactive Brent Ozar’s sp_askBrent, sp_blitz Extended events – Jonathan Kehayias DMVs – Glenn Berry’s diagnostic queries System info: dm_os_performance_counters, dm_os_wait_stats Query info: dm_exec_requests, dm_exec_query_stats Plans: dm_exec_query_plan, dm_exec_plan_attributes Cache/buffer pool: dm_exec_cached_plans, dm_os_buffer_descriptors Index info: dm_db_index_usage_stats, dm_io_virtual_file_stats Tools for finding performance problems

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15. Cursor options SET NOCOUNT ON Plan caching issues This could be a full day workshop on its own… Tools for improving T-SQL

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18. Session Evaluations ways to access Go to passsummit.com/evals Download the GuideBook App and search: PASS Summit 2014 Follow the QR code link displayed on session signage throughout the conference venue and in the program guide Submit by 11:59 PM EST Friday Nov. 7 to WIN prizes Your feedback is important and valuable. Evaluation Deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Sunday Nov. 16