SQLBits 2018

Investigate TempDB like Sherlock Holmes

Learn how to investigate the mysterious case of SQL Server performance problems in TempDB.

The system database TempDB has often been called a dumping ground, even the public toilet of SQL Server. (There has to be a joke about spills in there somewhere). In this session, you will learn to find those criminal activities that are going on deep in the depths of SQL Server that are causing performance issues. Not just for one session, but those that affect everybody on that instance.
After this session, you will have learned how to architect TempDB for better performance, how to create code more efficiently for TempDB, understand how space is utilized within TempDB, and have learned about queries and counters that will help diagnose where your bottlenecks are coming from.

Richard Douglas's previous sessions

Improving SQL Server Performance with Indexing

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Investigate TempDB like Sherlock Holmes

Learn how to investigate the mysterious case of SQL Server performance problems in TempDB.

Alerting; Beyond the Basics

We'll look at events that you should be monitoring, how you can use various services & IoT enabled devices to alert you in ways that were never possible. You'll leave with a new outlook of how teams can be notified to fix problems faster than ever.

The Big Backup Theory

In this session, you'll gain invaluable guidance for optimizing your backup strategies. Using trace flags the session will cover how SQL Server manages its own backup options and how you can tune them to meet your SLAs.

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In this session you'll learn all about SQL Server wait statistics. These are statistics the database engine stores about the resources it is waiting on. Armed with this information you as a SQL Server professional can make better informed decisions.

The Day After Tomorrow; Why You Need to Baseline

Ensuring top performance is never easy. To maintain performance you need to make sure you’re monitoring the right things. How do you know if the figures you’re seeing are good or bad? Baseline comparisons can help.