Performance tuning is an interesting concept and everybody evaluates it differently. Every developer and DBA have different opinion about how one can do performance tuning. I personally believe performance tuning is a three step process

1. Understanding the Query
2. Identifying the Bottleneck
3. Implementing the Fix

While, we are working with large database application and it suddenly starts to slow down. We are all under stress about how we can get back the database back to normal speed. Most of the time we do not have enough time to do deep analysis of what is going wrong as well what will fix the problem. Our primary goal at that time is to just fix the database problem as fast as we can. However, here is one very important thing which we need to keep in our mind is that when we do quick fix, it should not create any further issue with other parts of the system.

When time is essence and we want to do deep analysis of our system to give us the best solution we often tend to make mistakes. Sometimes we make mistakes as we do not have proper time to analysis the entire system. Here is what I do when I face such a situation – I take the help of DB Optimizer. It is a fantastic tool and does superlative performance tuning of the system.

Everytime when I talk about performance tuning tool, the initial reaction of the people is that they do not want to try this as they believe it requires lots of the learning of the tool before they use it. It is absolutely not true with the case of the DB optimizer. It is a very easy to use and self intuitive tool. Once can get going with the product, in no time. Here is a quick video I have build where I demonstrate how we can identify what index is missing for query and how we can quickly create the index.

Entire three steps of the query tuning are completed in less than 60 seconds. If you are into performance tuning and query optimization you should download DB Optimizer and give it a go.

Let us see the same concept in following SQL in Sixty Seconds Video:

You can Download DB Optimizer and reproduce the same Sixty Seconds experience.

Related Tips in SQL in Sixty Seconds:

• Performance Tuning – Part 1 of 2 – Getting Started and Configuration
• Performance Tuning – Part 2 of 2 – Analysis, Detection, Tuning and Optimizing

What would you like to see in the next SQL in Sixty Seconds video?

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)