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SQL Server 2022 Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization

Introduction The Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) feature family is extended with SQL Server 2022.One of the most anticipated features is the Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization. I started to test this new feature. In this post, you will find some(…)

SQL Server 2022 public preview available

This is a small blog post to share that the SQL Server 2022 public preview is available for download. The Microsoft announcement blog post and a summary of the new feature are available here : Announcing SQL Server 2022(…)

SQL Server: Find who forced a plan in Query Store with this new XEvent

The latest Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2019 has been released this week on Monday. It brings many bug fixes and some small improvements. One of these improvements is the addition of an extended event to identify the(…)

SQL Server: Automatic Soft-NUMA and uneven CPU load

SQL Server has CPU limitations depending on the Edition. If your VM is not configured properly you can reach these limits very easily. In a previous post, I described the effect VM misconfigurations can have on performance because not(…)

SQLBits 2022 – Levelling up my Performance Tuning skills

As a consultant at dbi services, I am lucky enough to have time dedicated to training and conferences. This week I have the chance to attend one of the most important conferences for Data professionals: SQLBits 2022.

How to use the licensing Control-M reporting tool

BMC Software requests yearly a licencing report of the usage of Control-M at the customer site, for that they send you a request to generate a report by using a Usage Reporting Tool provided by them and send back the(…)

How to trigger an action in On Do Action based of a text in the Job Log output

Normally we can trigger an On Do Action based on string found in the Job Output. But we would like to do the same for a Job log, that feature doesn’t exist, but there is a way to make it(…)

dbi Event Recap: SQL Server Automatic Tuning and Query Store

Earlier this month, dbi services hosted a free multi-technology event. Details are available on our website. I had the opportunity to present a session about the Query Store and the Automatic Tuning feature available on SQL Server and(…)

SQL Server: Is Fill Factor applied during INSERT?

The Fill factor setting controls the amount of space that is left available on the index data pages. The goal is to allow new rows to be inserted or existing ones to change size (UPDATE)  without resulting in(…)

SQL Server: table variables performance limitations

Doing some performance troubleshooting for one of my customers I identified some issues with very large table variables inside Stored procedures. Table variables limitations are not well understood by developers although they are now well documented. Table variable(…)