SQL Plan Warnings

SQL Plan Warnings

There are many methods available for optimizing the performance of SQL Server. One method in particular is examining your plan cache, looking for query plan warnings. Plan warnings include implicit conversions, key or RID lookups, and missing indexes to name a few. Each of these warnings is the optimizer giving you the opportunity to take … Read more

Using SQL Server Performance Objects

SQL Server performance objects are found inside the Performance Monitor tool, also known as perfmon. If you are using Performance Monitor for gathering resource metrics for SQL Server then you are familiar with a screen such as this one: You can see I have navigated to the SQL Server Plan Cache counter, selected Cache Hit … Read more

Adding Python Packages to SQL Server 2017

Python SQL Server install Keras package

SQL Server 2017 allows for the use of Python scripts called as an external script. SQL Server comes with some Python packages by default. Today I wanted to talk about adding Python packages to SQL Server 2017. To get started with Python in SQL Server 2017 we must enable the use of external scripts.   … Read more