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08 - Retrieving SQL Metadata and Improving SQL Performance

This document discusses retrieving SQL Server metadata and improving query performance. It covers querying system catalogs and dynamic management views, creating and executing stored procedures, and tips for improving query performance such as using indexes and limiting returned rows and columns.

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08 - Retrieving SQL Metadata and Improving SQL Performance

This document discusses retrieving SQL Server metadata and improving query performance. It covers querying system catalogs and dynamic management views, creating and executing stored procedures, and tips for improving query performance such as using indexes and limiting returned rows and columns.

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08 | Retrieving SQL Server Metadata

and Improving Query Performance

Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Jump Start


05 | SET Operators, Windows Functions, and Grouping
SET operators, Windows functions, GROUPING sets (PIVOT, UNPIVOT, CUBE, ROLLUP)

06 | Modifying Data

INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, use of defaults, constraints, and triggers, OUTPUT

07 | Programming with T-SQL

Using T-SQL programming elements, implementing error handling, understanding and implementing transactions

08 | Retrieving SQL Server Metadata and Improving Query Performance

Querying system catalogs and dynamic management views, creating and executing stored procedures, improving SQL
Server query performance

--Pre-filtered to exclude system objects


SELECT name, object_id, schema_id, type, type_desc
FROM sys.tables;

--Includes system and user objects


SELECT name, object_id, schema_id, type, type_desc
FROM sys.objects;

Information schema views

SELECT TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA,


TABLE_NAME, TABLE_TYPE
FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;
SELECT VIEW_CATALOG, VIEW_SCHEMA, VIEW_NAME,
TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME,
COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE;
SELECT VIEW_CATALOG, VIEW_SCHEMA, VIEW_NAME,
TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME,
COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE
WHERE COLUMN_NAME = BusinessEntityID

SELECT @@VERSION AS SQL_Version;


SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS version;
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') AS collation;

SELECT session_id, login_time, program_name


FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
WHERE is_user_process = 1;

SELECT referencing_schema_name,
referencing_entity_name,
referencing_class_desc
FROM
sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities(
'Sales.SalesOrderHeader', 'OBJECT');
GO

Naming pattern

Description

db

Database-related information

exec

Query execution-related information

io

I/O statistics

os

SQL Server Operating System (SQLOS) information

tran

Transaction-related information

--no parameters so lists all database


EXEC sys.sp_databases;
--single parameter of name of table
EXEC sys.sp_help N'Sales.Customer';

--multiple named parameters


EXEC sys.sp_tables
@table_name = '%',
@table_owner = N'Sales';

Name

Description

sp_databases

Lists databases in an instance of SQL Server

sp_tables

Returns a list of tables or views, except synonyms

sp_columns

Returns column information for the specified objects

--This example uses EXEC, includes the sys schema name,


--and passes the table name as a named Unicode parameter
--to a procedure accepting an NVARCHAR(776)
--input parameter.
EXEC sys.sp_help @objname = N'Sales.Customer';

CREATE PROCEDURE <schema_name.proc_name>


(<parameter_list)
AS
SELECT <body of SELECT statement>;

CREATE PROCEDURE Production.ProdsByProductLine


(@numrows AS int, @ProdLine AS nchar)
AS
SELECT TOP(@numrows) ProductID,
Name, ListPrice
FROM
Production.Product
WHERE ProductLine = @ProdLine;
--Retrieve top 50 products with product line = M
EXEC Production.ProdsByProductLine 50, M

Table scan: SQL Server reads all table rows

Index seek/scan: SQL Server uses indexes to find rows

Viewing graphical execution plans

Display Estimated Execution Plan

Include Actual Execution Plan

SET STATISTICS TIME ON;

SET STATISTICS IO ON;

CREATE PROCEDURE Production.ProdsByProductLine


(@numrows AS int, @ProdLine AS nchar)
AS
SELECT TOP(@numrows) ProductID,
Name, ListPrice
FROM
Production.Product
WHERE ProductLine = @ProdLine;
--Retrieve top 50 products with product line = M
EXEC Production.ProdsByProductLine 50, M

Writing well-performing queries will improve your SQL Server performance.


Improvements can be made by only retrieving the data you need which
means specify the exact columns you want returned instead of using *, and
also use the WHERE clause to return only the rows you need

Be sure to understand the benefits of indexing and create indexes that


support filters, joins, and ordering. If possible avoid using cursors and other
iterative approaches
Utilize execution plans to view information on which tables to access, which
indexes to use, what joins to perform. Execution plans provide a graphical
representation of the methods that SQL Server uses to execute a T-SQL
query. View these plans from right to left, and top to bottom and view
additional information by hovering your mouse over items displayed in the
plan.

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