Find Most Expensive Queries Running on a Table I was investigating SQL Server performance issue on a table where I was getting more locks, query timeout expires, on a table that has more than a hundred columns. So I was just wanted to know what are the most expensive queries running on that SQL Server table. I would like to share my script that will return most expansive query running on a table, Hare I am using DVM to find the most expansive query. Suppose we have a table called calls SELECT TOP 15 SQLQueries=SUBSTRING(qt.TEXT, (qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1, ((CASE qs.statement_end_offset WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.TEXT) ELSE qs.statement_end_offset END - qs.statement_start_offset)/2)+1), qs.execution_count, qs.total_logical_reads, qs.last_logical_reads, qs.total_logical_writes, qs.last_logical_writes, qs.total_worker_time, qs.last_worker_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/1000000 total_elapsed_time_in_S, qs.last_elapsed_time/1000000 last_elapsed_time_in_S, qs.last_execution_time, qp.query_plan FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) qt CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) qp where SUBSTRING(qt.TEXT, (qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1, ((CASE qs.statement_end_offset WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.TEXT) ELSE qs.statement_end_offset END - qs.statement_start_offset)/2)+1) like '% calls %' -- ORDER BY qs.total_logical_reads DESC -- logical reads -- ORDER BY qs.total_logical_writes DESC -- logical writes ORDER BY qs.total_worker_time DESC -- CPU time The above script will return the most expansive query running on “calls” table. you can change the order by clause on Logical reads, Logical writes or on CPU time. Please note : Running in your environment replace “calls” from script to your table name. ie % calls %

Check Index Fragmentation in a SQL Server

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Check Index Fragmentation in a SQL Server

If we run INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE queries frequently than we can see indexes on the particular table are fragmented. And the SQL query may run slower as they may choose the non-optimal execution plan. Below script can be used for checking how much percentages of an indexes gets fragmented on a database. so that we can rebuild or reorganise the indexes.

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(ind.OBJECT_ID) AS TableName,
ind.name AS IndexName, indexstats.index_type_desc AS IndexType,
indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) indexstats
INNER JOIN sys.indexes ind
ON ind.object_id = indexstats.object_id
AND ind.index_id = indexstats.index_id
WHERE indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent > 10--You can specify the percent as you want
AND ind.name is not null
ORDER BY indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent DESC