Quickstart into database Performance Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
This session provides an overview of tools and functionalities monitoring and analyzing performance in SQL Server, Azure SQL and Azure database in Fabric, highlighting their overlaps and showing which techniques work across all platforms.
Session Details
A consistent performance experience is crucial for a successful business. If you are developing, testing, or supporting SQL databases, you need to understand where to look and what to look for.
Depending on whether your SQL database is hosted on-prem, in Azure SQL or Fabric, there are some differences in what tools are available.
This session provides an overview of these tools, highlighting their overlaps and showing which techniques work across all platforms.
Among the things you will be introduced to will be Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, and the Query Store. So next time someone asks you to take a look at a badly performing database application, you know where to look.
Depending on whether your SQL database is hosted on-prem, in Azure SQL or Fabric, there are some differences in what tools are available.
This session provides an overview of these tools, highlighting their overlaps and showing which techniques work across all platforms.
Among the things you will be introduced to will be Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, and the Query Store. So next time someone asks you to take a look at a badly performing database application, you know where to look.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Learn valuable dynamic management views
Learn about Extended Events and how to use the UI for analysis
Learn which tools and techniques are available for which monitoring scope
Speakers
Andreas Wolter's other proposed sessions for 2026
Contained Availability Groups – Best Practices from Real-World Projects - 2026
De-mystifying SQL Security: Open Discussion and Real-World Insights - 2026
Enhancing Data Security for SQL Server and Azure SQL: A Strategic Approach - 2026
Practical Performance Monitoring & Troubleshooting for SQL Server and AzureSQL - 2026
SQL Server under attack: SQL Injection - 2026