Tips, Tricks, and Advice from the SQL Server Query Processing Team

Checklist for time out errors Memory pressure : In most cases timeouts are caused by insufficient memory (i.e. memory pressure). There are different types of memory pressures and it is very important to identify the root cause. The following articles...

This short article provides a checklist for query execution time out errors in Yukon . It does not touch the time out issues on optimization and connection. Before reading this article, you are recommended to read the following post to get familiar with...

ETW stands for “Event Tracing for Windows” and it is used by many Windows applications to provide debug trace functionality. This “wide” availability is a key point of using ETW because it can help to track certain activities from end to end. For example...

- Building Partitioned Index vs. Building non-Partitioned Index: The data of partitioned tables and indexes is divided into units that can be spread across more than one filegroup in a database. The data is partitioned horizontally, so that groups...

Builder (write data to the in-build index) | Sort (order by index key) | Scan (read data from source) In order to build the b-tree for the index we have to first sort the data from source. The flow is to scan the source, sort it (if...

Index Build strategy in SQL Server may vary depending on users needs. Each of these Index Build strategies may have different memory and disc space requirement. These different strategies will be discussed in the next several posts. For the beginning...