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Lightning Talks

My data-mart is better than your data warehouseGogula Aryalingam Business Intelligence

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Navantis

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My data-mart is better than your data warehouse

TRY… CATCH…

Shiham Samsudeen T-SQL

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Zone 24x7

TRY… CATCH… Alien ?

• Your Code in the TRY block• Check for the Errors in the CATCH block

Can be found in Modern Programming Languages

TRY… CATCH…T-SQL Style

• Your SQL Statement in the TRY block• Check for the Errors in the CATCH block

Find it in Transact-SQL

sql_statement: any Transact-SQL statement

statement_block : any group of Transact-SQL statements

in a batch or enclosed in a BEGIN…END block.

Why your code FAILED?List of SQL Server functions to identify:

ERROR_NUMBER() returns the number of the error

ERROR_SEVERITY() returns the severity of the error

ERROR_STATE() returns the error state number

ERROR_PROCEDURE() returns the name of the stored procedure or trigger where the error occurred, this will be NULL if you run an ad-hoc SQL statement

ERROR_LINE() returns the line number inside the routine that caused the error

ERROR_MESSAGE() returns the complete text of the error message. The text includes the values supplied for any substitutable parameters, such as lengths, object names, or times

NEED to see some T-SQL

Nice Result

Check out what being selected

out?

What can we do with this ?

I will Hold Error Info

I will Fill the Error Info

Error Occurs…Recording Error Info

Take Out the Error Info.

Results!

Error 1

Error 2

Error 3

Information is Wealth! the ability to log all errors plus any other information you want to capture like

user name, host name etc with 1 Stored Proc that you can call from everywhere

Take Home with You,

the ability to do anything with the logged

data Once YOU have it.

I CAN NOT do ANYTHING on SOMETHING until I have that THING!

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Try… Catch…

Parameter Sniffing

Susantha Bathige T-SQL

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Pearson Lanka

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Parameter Sniffing

Data Compression

Sudesh Wijayatilake Performance Tuning

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Finlays Colombo PLC

The Feature• The Data Compression feature of

SQL Server, can reduce the storage footprint of your databases.

– Often, data compression may lead to degrade in CPU performance due to compress/decompress; • However, SQL Server 2008 data

compression simply stores data more efficiently in the rows and pages, which means that the in-memory storage and IO Operations data management is efficient.

Mainly 2 Types of Compression

• SQL Server 2008 supports 2 specific types of data compression methods:– Row Compression

• lower level which stores the fixed character strings by using variable-length format by not storing the blank characters. NULL and 0 values across all data types are optimized and take no bytes.

– Page Compression• Is Higher level compressing & uses two types of compression

– Prefix - Prefix compression works on common values pattern across all rows on the page

– Dictionary -  Works on exact values match pattern across all pages.

Considerations• Data compress very well:

– Columns with numeric or fixed-length character data types where most values don’t require all the allocated bytes: For example, integers where most values are less than 1000

– Null-able columns where a significant number of the rows have a NULL value for the column

– Significant amounts of repeating data values or repeating prefix values in the data

• Some patterns of data that do not benefit much from compression are:

– Columns with numeric or fixed-length character data types where most values require all the bytes allocated for the specific data type

– Not much repeating data– Repeating data with non-repeating prefixes– Data stored out of the row– FILESTREAM data

• Compression is Version dependant [Cannot be decompressed on another version]

Implement Data compression

• You can implement both types of data compression when you create a table or index, or by altering existing tables and indexes. You can do this by using Transact-SQL code or the Data Compression Wizard.

USE [AdventureWorks] Go

/*Estimating how much space can be saved by row or page*/EXEC sp_estimate_data_compression_savings 'Sales', 'SalesOrderDetail', NULL, NULL,'ROW' ;Go

EXEC sp_estimate_data_compression_savings 'Sales', 'SalesOrderDetail', NULL,NULL, 'PAGE' ;GO---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/*Enabling Table compression by row or page */ALTER TABLE Sales.SalesOrderDetailREBUILD WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = ROW); –OR

ALTER TABLE [Sales].[SalesOrderDetail] REBUILD PARTITION = ALLWITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE)

Referred from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd894051(v=sql.100).aspx

Bolt of Lightening

Queries and Share Your Findings

• Please email me Sudesh.wijayatilaka@yahoo.com

–OR upload to our SQL Server Universe sitehttp://www.sqlserveruniverse.com/ forums

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Data Compression

Table Variables, The good and the bad

Supun Thrikawala Performance Tuning

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CAM Management Solutions

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Table variables, the good and the bad

SQL Server Standards

Avantha Siriwardana General

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CAM Management Solutions

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SQL Server Standards