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How to do a simple SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE performance test?

I have a table which might be causing excessive delays during insertion of new records. I'd like to run a test against the database, measuring how long it takes to select, insert, and delete from the ...
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Single query sending and retreiving duplicate data on MS SQL Server?

Very odd thing happening. It would appear that all queries against a particular database in our system are periodically "running slow". Ie "normal speed" for 5 minutes then slow for 5 minutes ...
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Definitive list of steps for SQL Server baseline testing?

Before running a performance test / baseline for an app that uses SQL Server, I want to be able to set the instance to a "clean" state, without restarting the instance. There are steps I tend to ...
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SQL Server commands to clear caches before running a performance comparison

When comparing the execution time of two different queries, it's important to clear the cache to make sure that the execution of the first query does not alter the performance of the second. In a ...
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Any general reasonable performance tests for DBs on application server and DBs on separate server?

My company are planning to move the DBs (SQL Server 2008 R2) from the application server to another server (random distance). All servers are Windows 2003 x86. Are there any general performance tests ...
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How to stress test a SQL server?

I've been tasked to stress test our MSSQL Server and MySQL Server. I would like to know if there are any tools or scripts which I could use on our current systems and the new system to compare ...
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Testing stored procedure scalability

I have an email application that will be called upon to deliver to the UI the number of new messages for a given user on each page load. I have a few variations of things I am testing on the DB level ...
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What tools are there to generate test data for SQL Server?

As you can see from another question of mine, generating test data is my theme right now. At this point, I'm still generating my test data by hand. However, this process always generates small ...
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How to compare performance of two versions of a function?

I just saw this function definition: create function dbo.f (@a int, @b int) returns integer as begin return case when not exists (Select * from t1 where t1.col1 = @a) AND @b ...