SELECT TOP 10 ‘Procedure’ = qt.text ,DiskReads = qs.total_physical_reads — The worst reads, disk reads ,MemoryReads = qs.total_logical_reads –Logical Reads are memory reads ,Executions = qs.execution_count ,CPUTime = qs.total_worker_time ,DiskWaitAndCPUTime = qs.total_elapsed_time ,MemoryWrites = qs.max_logical_writes ,DateCached = qs.creation_time ,DatabaseName = DB_Name(qt.dbid) FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt WHERE qt.dbid = db_id() — [...]
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Find Queries Taking Most Memory
SELECT TOP 10 ‘Procedure’ = qt.text ,DiskReads = qs.total_physical_reads — The worst reads, disk reads ,MemoryReads = qs.total_logical_reads –Logical Reads are memory reads ,Executions = qs.execution_count ,CPUTime = qs.total_worker_time ,DiskWaitAndCPUTime = qs.total_elapsed_time ,MemoryWrites = qs.max_logical_writes ,DateCached = qs.creation_time ,DatabaseName = DB_Name(qt.dbid) FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt WHERE qt.dbid = db_id() — [...]
View Active Connections
With SQL Server 2005+, it is very easy to view the specifics of connection information. This is very useful because when troubleshooting slowdowns. Luckily there are a few dynamic management views that provide insight into connection and session information. The following query groups the connections according the program that is connected to SQL Server. This [...]
Find Dependent Objects
One new feature that SQL Server 2008 offers is more reliable dependency information. SQL Server 2005 offered a DMV (dynamic management view) called sys.sql_dependencies. It is now replaced by a more reliable sys.sql_expression_dependencies. The following script will show all the procedures that reference a given table name, along with the columns the procedure references also. [...]
Find Resource Currently Involved in Blocking
SELECT DISTINCT objname = object_name(p.object_id) FROM sys.partitions p JOIN sys.dm_tran_locks t1 ON p.hobt_id = t1.resource_associated_entity_id
Find Queries Using Most CPU
SELECT TOP 5 object_name(objectID) ,[Avg CPU Time] = total_worker_time/execution_count ,execution_count ,Plan_handle ,query_plan FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) ORDER BY total_worker_time/execution_count DESC;
Find Most Executed Queries
SELECT TOP 50 qs.execution_count ,OBJECT_NAME(objectid) ,query_text = SUBSTRING( qt.text, qs.statement_start_offset/2, (CASE WHEN qs.statement_end_offset = -1 THEN len(convert(nvarchar(max), qt.text)) * 2 ELSE qs.statement_end_offset END – qs.statement_start_offset)/2) ,qt.dbid ,dbname = db_name(qt.dbid) ,qt.objectid FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) as qt ORDER BY qs.execution_count DESC
Find Most Blocked Queries
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(objectid) ,BlockTime = total_elapsed_time – total_worker_time ,execution_count ,total_logical_reads FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs cross apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) ORDER BY total_elapsed_time – total_worker_time DESC
Find Query Reuse (Execution Plan Reuse)
– find counts of query re-use SELECT * FROM ( select *, (select object_name(objectid) from sys.dm_exec_sql_text(p.plan_handle)) AS SNAME from sys.dm_exec_cached_plans p where usecounts <= 1 –and objtype != ‘adhoc’ –and objtype != ‘prepared’ ) t WHERE SNAME IS NOT NULL order by usecounts, size_in_bytes desc
Find Table Fragmentation
DECLARE @Database VARCHAR(255) DECLARE @TableName VARCHAR(255) DECLARE @IndexName VARCHAR(255) SET @Database = ‘SQLServerPlanet’ SET @TableName = ‘Users’ SET @IndexName = NULL SELECT avg_fragmentation_in_percent ,page_count FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ( DB_ID(@Database) ,OBJECT_ID(@TableName) ,OBJECT_ID(@IndexName) ,NULL ,NULL ) Or you can still do it the old fashioned way. Just substitute the name of the table or index below. It should [...]
