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Optimizing SQL Server Performance

Employ Visual Expert to efficiently optimize your database, improve performance, and resolve complex SQL-related issues.

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How does Visual Expert stand out from other tools?

Many tools – including SQL Server – can analyze the performance of a database object or SQL query.
Despite this, performance optimization remains complex and time-consuming, especially for large databases and complex SQL Server code.

Here's how Visual Expert differentiates itself from other tools and why its strengths make it easier to optimize performance:

Comprehensive Database Analysis

Visual Expert stands out for its unique ability to combine:

  1. In-depth understanding of source code
  2. Performance data from the database

In addition, Visual Expert analyzes cover all elements of the database: stored procedures, triggers, SQL, indexes, and all other objects that can affect performance.

Finally, Visual Expert does not just analyze objects individually but offers a broader vision. For example, you can find the slowest objects in your entire database, or analyze each element in an execution graph to identify bottlenecks.

SQL Server Performance Tuning Work

Ranking of Slowest Objects

Visual Expert automatically reviews all objects in the database, and isolates and classifies the slowest ones by average execution time. You can therefore prioritize corrective actions to quickly improve the user experience.

Ranking Slowest Objects

Analyze Execution Trees

Visual Expert generates a detailed execution tree, showing calls between elements and their respective execution times. It provides a complete analysis of call chains and helps identify bottlenecks.

Analyzing Execution Trees

Prioritize Frequently Used Objects

Listing the slowest objects is not enough, we must also distinguish those that are executed most often because these are the ones that affect the user experience the most.

Visual Expert also takes this information into account to calculate the total time consumed by these objects. This allows you to decide which objects to optimize first.

Find Frequently Used Objects

Find the Origin of a Slow SQL

With their usual tools, DBAs can see SQLs that are too slow. But even when they are reported, developers cannot always find the code that generated these SQLs. In this case, problems can’t be corrected…

By combining performance data and code structure analysis, Visual Expert identifies the slowest SQLs and shows the SQL Server objects they come from, so you can optimize them.

Find Origin of a Slow SQL

Add Missing Indexes

Add Missing Indexes

Indexes speed up the execution of SQL queries. If they are not created correctly, performance degrades.

Their creation depends on the syntax of the SQLs, the code of which evolves when the application is modified. It is therefore necessary to constantly monitor the code to find the index missing. But this is too complex and tedious a task to be done manually.

Visual Expert has the unique ability to automate this task, by combining analysis of database code and schemas: it finds and scans all SQLs in your database, verifies that the necessary indexes are already created, and reports the indexes missing. You can therefore review all your database schemas regularly, and improve your response times straight away.

Features Comparison: SQL Server v/s Visual Expert

Features

SQL Server and Performance tuning tools

Visual Expert
Analyze the performance of an object or SQL
Analyze an entire database and classify the slowest objects
Identify the most frequently used objects, to prioritize performance issues
Break down response times within a call graph, and identify the elements that slow it down.
Scan an entire database to find missing indexes
Find SQLs that slow down the database
Find the origin of these SQLs in the code

Visual Expert Highlights

Depth of analysis and completeness of information

By combining several sources of information (source code, performance data, DB schemas, etc.), Visual Expert goes beyond other tools and drastically simplifies the monitoring of applications, identification, and correction of problems in the code.

Ease of use and visual reporting

Visual Expert's intuitive user interface simplifies performance analysis, even for users with limited SQL experience. The results are presented clearly and understandably.

Visual Expert generates detailed visual reports, making complex analyzes easy to understand and communicate to non-technical teams. This facilitates collaboration and continuous performance improvement.

Global optimization

Visual Expert helps businesses globally optimize their databases, reducing response times and improving operational efficiency and user experience.

Conclusion

Visual Expert is an essential tool for optimizing the performance of your SQL Server databases. It offers more advanced features and deeper analytics than other tools. Visual Expert provides the information and tools needed to quickly achieve meaningful, lasting results, whether diagnosing performance issues or optimizing complex SQL Server databases.

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