TECHNOLOGY

How to Conduct SQL Performance Tuning

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2 years ago

January 16, 2022

How to Conduct SQL Performance Tuning

The concept of SQL Server performance tuning is simple. To put it briefly, if your organization’s functionality involves a lot of powerful tools to handle a range of data, then this system will be the perfect choice for you. It is important to have a properly functioning system to handle data in your organization. For, in a case where the handling system is inefficient, your organization’s resources will be affected.

Other relevant aftermath includes slow performances and the loss of service. This is where the SQL queries come into play; it has the efficiency to smoothen your organization’s functionality when it involves handling data.

By SQL Server performance tuning, you are making the SQL query system more efficient. You can know the concept in depth by enrolling in SQL certification online. The following segment will explain more about the SQL tuning aspect.

SQL performance tuning: a brief understanding

By now, it would be clear that the SQL query system acts as an efficient data warehouse.

But, why does it require tuning? Imagine a general physical warehouse. A warehouse would consist of a variety of shelves, and a number of other elements/ requirements to hold your products properly. Imagine the same physical warehouse being unguarded, in addition to being unattended.

What happens now? All your products could be stolen and could be damaged to a great extent too. Now, imagine this another scenario. You are maintaining the warehouse properly; regularly maintaining the place and attending to small repairs now and then. This would eventually increase the lifetime of your warehouse.

During the course of regular maintenance, you will also make sure that additional products can be added to your warehouse, for more monetary benefits. Likewise, SQL performance tuning gives you more or less the same metamorphic benefits. The better care you give towards the SQL performance tuning, the better the overall SQL performance be.

To simply put, the SQL server generally has a lot of processes as well as procedures; this is to enable efficient functioning of the system. The performance tuning aspect helps in optimizing maximum efficiency in general. Furthermore, the tuning of SQL ensures that MySQL, as well as SQL servers, get benefitted as well.

Importance of SQL performance tuning

Faster Retrieval

Be it a physical warehouse or SQL data warehouse, the primary aim to store anything is to retrieve it easily. Imagine if it takes hours to get the simplest item from your warehouse; you would be frustrated of course. To be honest, it would be more annoying to sit in front of your workplace device to see the “loading” message. For, you know that a simple delay can alter your day’s schedule to a great extent. To avoid such inconveniences, it is always important to tune the performance of SQL. You can know more about this by checking out SQL interview questions.

Another key point to note here is that, as per several pieces of research conducted across the globe, the speed of your organization’s systems decides your client’s purchasing mood. Thus, the slowness of your SQL performance can impact your client too.

Overall, it is a required action to improve the data retrieval speed of your organization.

Avoiding coding loops

To put it in simple terms, the concept of coding loops is a set of repetitive instructions. These repetitive instructions continue to happen till the conditional goal/ destination is reached. For an instance, if you want to modify a particular data, the loop will happen only till the modification of data only.

The loops are effective only when it is properly functional. Improper coding loops have the capacity to damage your data. Thus, by tuning the SQL performance, the loop will happen only one time. Without the fine-tuning of the SQL performance, the loop will happen many times, which would have aftermath on your data in general.

Best practices to follow to effectively tune the performance of SQL

Analyze the task time

The best way to find the health of your server system is by starting your investigation at the task response level. Give your SQL system a simple task to perform and note the time taken. Simultaneously, give a complex task to your system and again note the time. Now check if there is any unreasonable lag as such.

Currently, there are several third-party apps/ software are available that would consistently check the speed of your system and would immediately notify you if there is any suspicious lag.

It is always recommended to record such results and monitor the improvements/ derailments in general.

Examination is the key

As a part of an organization, you know that every set of data falls under a particular category/ sub-category. Having said that, since you would have to deal with a large chunk of data in general, it is always good to have relevant filters. If you do not have filters as of now, you should seriously consider implementing the same. This will help in fine-tuning the SQL performance to a great level. You can know more about this by checking out the video below:

SQL Certification Training | Learn SQL for Beginners | Intellipaat

Conclusion

Enhancing your SQL is important to keep your data safe and strong. It is also important to improve the overall performance of your database too. By implementing the fine-tuning mechanisms on your database, you are set to have a high-functioning database in your organization.

Author:
Neelabh Verma is a content writer at Intellipaat having 5+ industry experience in databas management

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Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3

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5 months ago

December 1, 2023

Max

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Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has been on the AI side for AWS’ announcements, including a major partnership inked with NVIDIA across infrastructure, software, and services.

Yet there has been plenty more announced at the Las Vegas jamboree besides. Here, CloudTech rounds up the best of the rest:

Next-generation chips

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The EC2 UltraClusters are designed to ‘deliver the highest performance, most energy efficient AI model training infrastructure in the cloud’, as AWS puts it. With it, customers will be able to train large language models in ‘a fraction of the time’, as well as double energy efficiency.

As ever, AWS offers customers who are already utilising these tools. Databricks, Epic and SAP are among the companies cited as using the new AWS-designed chips.

Zero-ETL integrations

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A simple example of how zero-ETL functions can be seen is in a hypothetical company which stores transactional data – time of transaction, items bought, where the transaction occurred – in a relational database, but use another analytics tool to analyse data in a non-relational database. To connect it all up, companies would previously have to construct ETL data pipelines which are a time and money sink.

The latest integrations “build on AWS’s zero-ETL foundation… so customers can quickly and easily connect all of their data, no matter where it lives,” the company said.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone

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Companies and partners who are using Amazon S3 Express One Zone include ChaosSearch, Cloudera, and Pinterest.

Amazon Q

A new product, and an interesting pivot, again with generative AI at its core. Amazon Q was announced as a ‘new type of generative AI-powered assistant’ which can be tailored to a customer’s business. “Customers can get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, generate content, and take actions – all informed by a customer’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems,” AWS added. The service also can assist companies building on AWS, as well as companies using AWS applications for business intelligence, contact centres, and supply chain management.

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5 months ago

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Digital comms specialist Cisco and global tech firm HCLTech have teamed up to launch Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS).

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