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Advanced TSQL Part II

This document discusses various techniques for optimizing TSQL queries in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It provides tips to improve performance such as avoiding subqueries and unnecessary joins, filtering records efficiently, using proper indexes, and favoring set-based logic over cursors. The document also explains how queries are processed, with the parser validating syntax and the optimizer generating an execution plan to improve efficiency. Key parts of query plans like joins, aggregations, and potential problems with suboptimal plans are outlined.

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Advanced TSQL Part II

This document discusses various techniques for optimizing TSQL queries in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It provides tips to improve performance such as avoiding subqueries and unnecessary joins, filtering records efficiently, using proper indexes, and favoring set-based logic over cursors. The document also explains how queries are processed, with the parser validating syntax and the optimizer generating an execution plan to improve efficiency. Key parts of query plans like joins, aggregations, and potential problems with suboptimal plans are outlined.

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TSQL OPTIMIZATIONS

Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Tips and tricks toward making


queries perform better
Microsoft SQL Server 2012

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES

Avoid subqueries
Avoid LEFT JOINS
Limit the number of Joins
Filter out unwanted records
Explicitly mention columns
Create and use proper indexes
Avoid Distinct, Union, Not In operators
Use SET NO COUNT ON

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
CONTD.
Use TABLE VARIABLES instead of Temp tables
Avoid dynamic sql
Avoid recompiles
Use IF EXIST instead of COUNT(*)
Use COUNT(1) instead of COUNT(*)
Avoid functions on columns in the Where clause

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
CONTD.
Avoid cursors
Favor set-based logic over procedural or cursor logic
Avoid query hints
Use correlated subqueries to improve performance
Avoid using a scalar user-defined function in the WHERE clause
Avoid unnecessary GROUP BY columns
Use CASE expressions to include variable logic in a query
Divide joins into temporary tables when you query very large tables

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
CONTD
Minimize transaction times
Optimize the SPs to reduce the lock duration
Combine updates
Always access server objects in same order for similar operations
Apply covering indexes when having multiple column filters
Reduce lookups

Execution Plans and


Operators

WHAT HAPPENS TO QUERY??


Parser: Validation for Syntactical errors.
Example (Select * from <table Name>,
syntax error)

Algebrizer:
Does Name resolution
Tables, Views, Columns
Object Not found is an error from
Algebrizer

Aggregations with Group By (Below


example parser validation is OK but not
algebrizer)
select LoginID, COUNT(EmployeeID) from
AdventureWorksDW.HumanResources.Employee
Group by Title

Algebrizer provides Query Processor


Tree for Optimizer

Optimizer generates query Execution


plan.
Execution Engine and Storage Engine
Execute query

WHAT DOES OPTIMIZER DO TO


PLAN

WHAT A QUERY PLAN SHOWS

QUERY PLAN

JOINS IN GRAPHICAL SHOWPLAN

JOINS

NESTED
LOOP JOIN
NESTED
LOOPJOIN

NESTED LOOP JOIN

MERGE
JOIN
MERGE
JOIN

MERGE JOIN

HASH
HASHJOIN
JOIN

HASH JOIN

AGGERIGATION

SUBOPTIMAL PLANS

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