Query performance

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SQL Server Plan Cache Limits

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Erin Stellato explains the limits on both plan cache size, and number of entries. If you’re seeing plan cache bloat due to an ad hoc workload, take note of the space consumed by your plan cache and consider enabling the optimize for ad hoc setting.

2019-05-31

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Techniques For Improving SQL Query Performance - Indexing, Parameterization and Partitioning

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You are tasked with examining poor performance for queries on a certain table, or range of tables. Perhaps a sales report is timing out or running unacceptably slow; perhaps your web application is failing to return the result set before the application timeout is reached. You need to find out what's causing the bottleneck, and optimize either the queries used, the table schemata, or both.

2013-09-06

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