Performance Tuning – SQLSERVERLEARNER https://sqlserverlearner.com LEARN SQL SERVER ONLINE Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:18:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Performance Tuning – Steps to make sure that you are comparing apples to apples https://sqlserverlearner.com/2015/08/09/performance-tuning-steps-to-make-sure-that-you-are-comparing-apples-to-apples/ https://sqlserverlearner.com/2015/08/09/performance-tuning-steps-to-make-sure-that-you-are-comparing-apples-to-apples/#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:18:31 +0000 https://sqlserverlearner.azurewebsites.net/2015/08/09/performance-tuning-steps-to-make-sure-that-you-are-comparing-apples-to-apples/ While working on optimizing performance of SQL Queries, its very important that the right numbers are compared.
Performance numbers might vary with each execution mostly due to SQL Server cache and buffer.

Below are the steps that can be taken to make sure that you are seeing right numbers.

– Clear the cache by running the above Script provided in this Link
– Run the query that you are trying to performance tune and note the Statistics. (a)
– Run the above script again to clear the cache.
– Now execute the tuned query and note down the Statistics. (b)

Query Statistics (a) and (b) would now be comparable as both of them are executed over the clean cache.

]]> https://sqlserverlearner.com/2015/08/09/performance-tuning-steps-to-make-sure-that-you-are-comparing-apples-to-apples/feed/ 0 TSQL Script to Clear SQL Server Cache https://sqlserverlearner.com/2015/08/09/tsql-script-to-clear-sql-server-cache/ https://sqlserverlearner.com/2015/08/09/tsql-script-to-clear-sql-server-cache/#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2015 02:56:53 +0000 https://sqlserverlearner.azurewebsites.net/2015/08/09/tsql-script-to-clear-sql-server-cache/ Below script that can be used to clear SQL Server Cache. Helpful while working on performance tuning of SQL Scripts.


CHECKPOINT;
GO
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
DBCC FREESYSTEMCACHE ('ALL')
DBCC FREESESSIONCACHE
GO

Note that this script is solely for running on Development environments, do not run in Production as it would cause issues to queries that depend on cached data.

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