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SQL Server 2017

[Video] What Percent Complete Is That Index Build?

Brent Ozar
Index Maintenance, SQL Server 2017, Videos
6 Comments
SQL Server 2017 & newer have a new DMV, sys.index_resumable_operations, that show you the percent_completion for index creations and rebuilds. It works, but…only if the data isn’t changing. But of course your data is changing – that’s the whole point of doing these operations as resumable. If they weren’t changing, we could just let the operations…
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SQL Server 2017 CU3 adds tempdb spill diagnostics in DMVs and Extended Events

Erik Darling
Execution Plans, Memory Grants, Parameter Sniffing, SQL Server 2017
4 Comments
Where have you been all my life? Whenever I’m teaching people about query tuning, two things come up almost without fail: parameter sniffing and tempdb spills. They’re not mutually exclusive — some queries will seemingly always spill to tempdb, whether parameter sniffing is present of not, and some queries experiencing issues with parameter sniffing will never spill…
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SQL Server 2017 CU3 add a new CXCONSUMER wait type

Erik Darling
Execution Plans, SQL Server 2017, Wait Stats
13 Comments
SQL Server 2017’s new CXCONSUMER wait type was originally announced by Microsoft’s Pedro Lopes, and now it’s out. Here’s what it means for performance tuners. According to Pedro, this wait is the “safe” type of parallelism wait, as opposed to the CXPACKET wait type, which means work isn’t evenly balanced across all of our cores. Pedro blogged…
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sp_BlitzQueryStore: A Gentle Introduction

Erik Darling
Execution Plans, First Responder Kit, Parameter Sniffing, Query Store (QDS), sp_BlitzQueryStore, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017
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Odds and ends During the precon, we asked how many people were on 2016, how many people were aware of query store, how many people were using it, and how many people were using sp_BlitzQueryStore. About 1/3 of the hands went up at first, then for each successive question, fewer and fewer hands stayed up.…
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No More SQL Server Service Packs: Is CU12 the New SP1?

Brent Ozar
Production Database Administration, SQL Server 2017
12 Comments
Starting with yesterday’s release of SQL Server 2017, Microsoft has a new servicing model: they’re only delivering Cumulative Updates, and not doing Service Packs. Pedro Lopes writes: SPs will no longer be made available. Only CUs, and GDRs when needed. CUs will be delivered more often at first and then less frequently. Every month for…
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New System Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2017

Brent Ozar
Columnstore Indexes, SQL Server 2017
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Got a few new stored procs for columnstore indexes: sp_add_columnstore_column_dictionary – input params for @table_id, @column_id sp_is_columnstore_column_dictionary_enabled – as above, plus output param for @is_enabled bit sp_remove_columnstore_column_dictionary – input params for @table_id, @column_id And a couple for snapshot views (which appear to be related to the new snapshot messages in sys.messages) sp_refresh_single_snapshot_view – input param for @view_name…
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New Wait Stats and DMV Columns in SQL Server 2017

Brent Ozar
SQL Server 2017, Wait Stats
3 Comments
SQL Server 2017 is officially out, and here’s what I’ve found so far. New Wait Stats in 2017 BACKUP_INMEM_DIFFLIST_READ_ACCESS BACKUP_INMEM_DIFFLIST_WRITE_ACCESS BLOB_CONTAINER_TABLE COLUMNSTORE_MIGRATION_BACKGROUND_TASK EXTERNAL_SCRIPT_NETWORK_IO FOREIGN_REDO GHOSTCLEANUP_UPDATE_STATS GLOBAL_QUERY_CANCEL GLOBAL_QUERY_CONSUMER GLOBAL_QUERY_PRODUCER HADR_THROTTLE_LOG_RATE_LOG_SIZE HADR_THROTTLE_LOG_RATE_SEEDING HADR_THROTTLE_LOG_RATE_SEND_RECV_QUEUE_SIZE MEMORY_GRANT_UPDATE MIGRATIONBUFFER PREEMPTIVE_OS_BCRYPTIMPORTKEY PREEMPTIVE_OS_NCRYPTIMPORTKEY PREEMPTIVE_XE_PROXY_ADDSESSION PREEMPTIVE_XE_PROXY_PROCESSBUFFER PREEMPTIVE_XE_PROXY_REMOVESESSION PREEMPTIVE_XE_PROXY_SESSIONCOMMIT PWAIT_AUDIT_CLOSE_EXPIRED_LOGS_MGR_RWLOCK PWAIT_AUDIT_SESSIONS_LOCK PWAIT_EXTERNAL_SCRIPT_LIBMGMT_DIR_PERMS PWAIT_PREEMPTIVE_APP_USAGE_TIMER PWAIT_PREEMPTIVE_XE_STUB_LISTENER PWAIT_SBS_FILE_OPERATION QDS_HOST_INIT RBIO_WAIT_VLF REMOTE_BLOCK_IO RESTORE_MSDA_THREAD_BARRIER SBS_DISPATCH SBS_RECEIVE_TRANSPORT SBS_TRANSPORT SECURITY_CNG_PROVIDER_MUTEX SLEEP_SETUP SNI_WRITE_ASYNC…
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ColumnStore Indexes: Rowgroup Elimination and Parameter Sniffing In Stored Procedures

Erik Darling
Columnstore Indexes, Development, Execution Plans, Indexing, Parameter Sniffing, SQL Server, SQL Server 2017
5 Comments
Yazoo Over on his blog, fellow Query Plan aficionado Joe Obbish has a Great Post, Brent® about query patterns that qualify for Rowgroup Elimination. This is really important to performance! It allows scans to skip over stuff it doesn’t need, like skipping over the dialog in, uh… movies with really good fight scenes. Car chases?…
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