Sunday, April 10, 2011

Mysterious system table: master.sys.sysdbreg

Have you ever seen the system table, "master.sys.sysdbreg" in your SQL Server. I've seen this unintentionally while working on something else. I was analyzing a query plan in XML view. Suddenly I saw this system table. See below portion of execution plan.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

How to identify objects used in a stored procedure

Recently there was a requirement from a project team to identify all objects belong to a stored procedure. Actually they wanted only the tables used in a stored procedure.You can use sp_depends with the SP and then you will be able to get all the dependent objects. But the actual requirement was much more complex than that because they wanted to analyze a trace they created for all the SPs captured in the trace.

Sp_depends and sys.sysdepends are provided in SQL Server 2008 for backward compatibility purpose only. So not recommending to use in new developments.

Refer below links for more information.


sp_depends


sys.sysdepends

How to interpret Disk Latency

I was analyzing IO stats in one of our SQL Servers and noticed that IO latency (Read / Write) are very high. As a rule of thumb, we know tha...