Government and Education Webinar: SQL Server—Advanced Performance Tuning

1
@solarwinds
SQL Server Performance Management
Advanced performance tuning for Microsoft® SQL Server®
Government and Education Webinar

2
@solarwinds
Speaker Introductions
© 2021 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Arthur Bradway
Government Sales Engineer, Advisory
arthur.bradway@solarwinds.com
703.386.2673 (office)

3
@solarwinds
Agenda
• SolarWinds overview
• SQL Server performance
• Database location
considerations
• SolarWinds® Database
Performance Analyzer (DPA)
• Demonstration
• Additional resources
• Q&A

4
@solarwinds 4
@solarwinds
Federal DPA Testimonial
“Currently we only use DPA, which helps our IT
Developers with the database. In the future we
would like to use software that monitors network
traffic, trace routes, etc.”
Virginia Collins, Network Administrator, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
ServicesCDAC
Source: TechValidate Federal survey October 2019
https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/87A-5FD-224

5
@solarwinds
SolarWinds at a Glance
1. IDC defined Network Management Software functional market, IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, October 15, 2020.
2. Gartner, Market Share Analysis: ITOM: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2019. June 17, 2020. (AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring Tools Software Market). SolarWinds term, Systems Management, refers to the AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring
Tools Software Market Taxonomy referenced in the Gartner report. All statements in this report attributable to Gartner represent SolarWinds interpretation of data, research opinion, or viewpoints published as part of a syndicated subscription service
by Gartner, Inc., and have not been reviewed by Gartner. Each Gartner publication speaks as of its original publication date (and not as of the date of this presentation). The opinions expressed in Gartner publications are not representations of fact
and are subject to change without notice.
3. Customers are defined as individuals or entities that have an active subscription for our subscription products or that have purchased one or more of our perpetual license products since our inception under a unique customer identification number.
We may have multiple purchasers of our products within a single organization, each of which may be assigned a unique customer identification number and deemed a separate customer.
#1
in network
management1
320,000+
customers in 190
countries3
60+
IT management
products
22,000+ MSPs serving
450,000+ organizations
Every branch of the DoD and
nearly every civilian and
intelligence agency
150,000+ registered members of THWACK®, our global IT community
Founded in 1999
More than 3,200
employees globally
Austin, TX headquarters
Reston, VA, government office
30+ offices globally
Leader
in remote monitoring and
management
#3
in systems
management2
Growing security
portfolio
499 of the
Fortune 500®

6
@solarwinds
What Is SolarWinds ITOM?
IT operations management. Simplified.
IT Ops
On-Premises Public Cloud
Service Management
IT
Security
Database Performance Management
Network Management
Infrastructure Management
IT Security
DevOps
Private Cloud
Wherever IT
sits
All things IT Whoever
manages IT
performance
Application Performance Management

7
@solarwinds
POLL
Which of these database platforms are operated at your
organization?
(Check all that apply.)
(From 2021 Government and Education User Group)
Poll 5

8
@solarwinds
Which of These Database Platforms Are Operated at Your Organization?
Database Poll Results Database Poll Results
MySQL® 50% (34) Azure SQL Database 22% (15)
Amazon® RDS MySQL 4% (3) Azure SQL Database Managed
Instance
7% (5)
Azure Database for MySQL 12% (8) MariaDB® (on-premises, RDS,
Azure)
6% (4)
PostgreSQL® 22% (15) IBM® DB2 9% (6)
EDB Postgres 0% (0) SAP ASE 0% (0)
Amazon RDS PostgreSQL 4% (3) MongoDB® 13% (9)
Azure Database for PostgreSQL 4% (3) Redis® 3% (2)
Aurora® 3% (2) Vitess® 0% (0)
Oracle® (on-premises, RDS) 38% (26) Other 6% (4)
Microsoft SQL Server® 90% (61)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server 6% (4)

9
@solarwinds 9
@solarwinds
SQL Server Performance
State and local testimonial
“The database team uses SolarWinds
Database Performance Analyzer to manage up
to 50 licenses. Performance problems can
come from all directions, so this tool is
extremely useful because it's a catch-all.”
https://www.trustradius.com/reviews/solarwinds-
database-performance-analyzer-2019-11-22-11-35-14

10
@solarwinds 10
@solarwinds
SQL Server Performance Tuning
Optimize servers and databases with SQL performance tuning
• Use response time analysis for SQL performance
tuning
• Identify bottlenecks, pinpoint their root causes, and prioritize your
actions based on user impact
• Gain critical insights with response time analysis
• Measures time for every wait type for each query, and compare
this data across queries
• Leverage SQL tuning tools
• Establish wait time baselines and get information on causes and
potential fixes
• Use real-time metrics
• Measure current server speed, perform in-depth query, index, and
setting tuning, and track results

11
@solarwinds
POLL
What percentage for your database workloads do you expect will
be running in the cloud over the next three years?
(Check one.)
(From 2021 Government and Education User Group)
Poll 6

12
@solarwinds
What Percentage for Your Database Workloads Do You Expect Will Be
Running In the Cloud Over the Next Three Years?
Where Running? Poll Results
100% on-premises 11% (6)
75% on-premises and 25% in the cloud 25% (14)
100% in the cloud 5% (3)
Don’t know 11% (6)

13
@solarwinds
Database Location Considerations
On-Premises Cloud
Nuances based on where your SQL Server instances are running
• Physical Server
• System Resources
• Hardware and OS
• Virtual Machine
• VM and Host
• CPU Ready
• Memory Swapping
• Co-Stop
• IaaS, PaaS/DBaaS
• Azure® SQL DB, ASMI, RDS
• Focus on the database vs.
resources
• Locking/Deadlocking
• Query Performance
• Table Index Performance
• Availability Groups
• And Other Considerations
• Database Throughput
Units (DTU)

14
@solarwinds 14
@solarwinds
Cross-Platform Database Performance
Management
“SolarWinds Database Performance
Analyzer solves problems that OEM
can't even recognize are occurring.”
http://trustradi.us/WE43X

15
@solarwinds
Most Trusted, Most Reviewed
Database Performance Analyzer – Over 300 independent reviews, over 100,000 database instances monitored

16
@solarwinds
Hybrid Monitoring, 24/7 Real Time, Down to the Second
Broad database support
Orion® Platform integration
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA)
Add screenshot on top of monitor and
use the crop function on photo to size.

17
@solarwinds
How It Works

18
@solarwinds
Database Performance Management
Cross-platform support for both cloud and on-premises databases. Anomaly
detection powered by machine learning gets smarter over time to help you
identify the bottlenecks slowing down your applications.
• Multi-dimensional wait analysis – Set the exact context for troubleshooting performance hits
with accurate root cause determination
• Detailed query-level performance analysis – Get query-level wait profile, advisors, inefficient
data access, statistics, plan changes, blocking involvement, and resource metrics all correlated in
one view
• Expert advice for query and table tuning – Proactive tuning and optimization with index
recommendations and performance projections along with inefficient query analysis
• Virtualized database monitoring – Best-in-class VMware® VM and host analysis including event
logging
• End-to-end performance monitoring – Orion Platform integration provides a single-pane-of-
glass view from the network to the storage array via AppStack™ and PerfStack™ dashboards

19
@solarwinds
DEMO

20
@solarwinds
Additional Resources
• Webinars
• Introduction to Query Tuning on Microsoft SQL Server
• SQL Server—Indexing for Performance
• Database Performance Analyzer
• Webpage
• Datasheet
• SQL Performance Tuning Use Case
• TrustRadius DPA reviews
• DPA demo
• Download free DPA trial
Let us know how we can help you

21
@solarwinds
Q&A
Call government or education
sales:
877.946.3751
Contact federal sales:
federalsales@solarwinds.com
Contact state and local
government sales:
governmentsales@solarwinds.com
Contact education sales:
educationsales@solarwinds.com

22
@solarwinds
Upcoming SolarWinds Webinars
SolarWinds Secure by Design
Briefing
June 16, 2021
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET
Register here.
Government and Education:
Virtual Technology Briefing
August 5, 2021
11 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET
Register here.

23
@solarwinds
Contact Us
• Call government sales: 877.946.3751
• Email government sales: Federal federalsales@solarwinds.com
State and local governmentsales@solarwinds.com
Education educationsales@solarwinds.com
• Visit our THWACK government group: http://thwack.com/government
• Download a free trial: http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/
• Visit our government website: http://www.solarwinds.com/government
• Visit our education website: https://www.solarwinds.com/solutions/education-it-solutions
• Follow us on LinkedIn®: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds-government
Let us know how we can help you

24
@solarwinds
THANK
YOU

25
@solarwinds
The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK
trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide,
LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration
in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service
marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or
pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are
used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and
may be registered trademarks) of their respective companies.

Government and Education Webinar: SQL Server—Advanced Performance Tuning

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to Government and Education Webinar: SQL Server—Advanced Performance Tuning

More from SolarWinds

Recently uploaded

Government and Education Webinar: SQL Server—Advanced Performance Tuning

Editor's Notes