How should you structure your tables? You’ll learn as we cover how heaps cause performance problems, see what’s really inside an index, explain the logic behind IDENTITY and GUID fields as clustering keys, and show when to break the best practices.
1.4 Heaps and Clustered Indexes (41m)
How should you structure your tables? You’ll learn as we cover how heaps cause performance problems, see what’s really inside an index, explain the logic behind IDENTITY and GUID fields as clustering keys, and show when to break the best practices.
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- 1.1 Skills Quiz – What’s Your Real Job Title (28m)
- 1.2 How to Think Like the Engine Part 1 (23m)
- 1.2 How to Think Like the Engine Part 2 (48m)
- 1.3 How to Think Like the Engine – Part 3 (46m)
- 1.5 Tuning Indexes with sp_BlitzIndex Part 1 (47m)
- 1.5 Tuning Indexes with sp_BlitzIndex Part 2 (9m)
- 1.6 Homework: Index Tuning Workshop Part 1 (12m)
- 1.7 Homework: Index Tuning Workshop Part 2 – Answers (60m)
- 2.1 Building Execution Plans Part 1 (25m)
- 2.1 Building Execution Plans Part 2 (22m)
- 2.2 Parameter Sniffing Part 1 (20m)
- 2.2 Parameter Sniffing Part 2 (34m)
- 2.3 Watch Brent Tune Queries Part 1 (56m)
- 2.3 Watch Brent Tune Queries Part 2 (8m)
- 2.4 Common Problems in Query Plans (16m)
- 2.5 Functions (17m)
- 2.6 Designing Indexes for Queries Part 1 (21m)
- 2.6 Designing Indexes for Queries Part 2 (26m)
- 2.6 Designing Indexes for Queries Part 3 (14m)
- 2.7 Homework – Query Design Challenge (6m)
- 2.7 Homework – Query Design Challenge Answers (46m)
- 3.1 How to Measure Your Server – Part 1 (24m)
- 3.1 How to Measure Your Server – Part 2: Wait Stats (17m)
- 3.1 How to Measure Your Server – Part 3: sp_BlitzFirst and Monitoring Software (24m)
- 3.1 How to Measure Your Server – Part 4: Wait Stats Q&A (10m)
- 3.2 CXPACKET (41m)
- 3.3 PAGEIOLATCH: Slow Reads from the Data File (57m)
- 3.4 LCK – Locking Snapshot RCSI Part 1 (39m)
- 3.4 LCK – Locking Snapshot RCSI Part 2 (29m)
- 3.5 – CPU Waits – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD and THREADPOOL (44m)
- 3.6 – Hardware Waits – ASYNC_NETWORK_IO, RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE, and WRITELOG (25m)
- 4.1 Solving Waits with AlwaysOn Availability Groups (26m)
- 4.2 Solving Waits with Artisanal Indexes – Filters Views Computed Columns (32m)
- 4.3 Solving Waits with In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) (43m)
- 4.4 VLDB Terabyteasaurus – Splitting Up Databases (33m)
- 4.5 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 1 (16m)
- 4.5 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 2 (44m)
- 4.5 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 3 (43m)
- 4.6 How to Write a Prescription (24m)
- 4.7 Recap and Q&A (58m)