Top SQL and Query Analysis

Optimize and tune SQL query performance

SQL Server query performance tuning should be easier

The Top SQL feature in SQL Sentry provides high-impact SQL query capture and analysis features. It collects details about running and completed queries, processes them for use in various features across the solution, and presents them for analysis, optimization, and tuning.

Top SQL becomes your guide to discovering the true root causes of poorly performing queries. Analyze your high-impact queries across the Microsoft Data Platform, including SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and Azure SQL Database.

Troubleshoot using SQL Server wait stats with a 100-point scale score

With the addition of query level wait stats in the Top SQL dashboard in SQL Sentry Portal, users can understand wait times of their queries. With the ability to drill down into individual query, or view the totals waits to assist with troubleshooting and performance tuning opportunities.

Quickly identify the top resource-consuming queries over time and begin tuning them by analyzing top waits types such as WriteLog, CXPacket, and Async_Network_IO.

Execution plan diagram

With the integration of SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, you can view a graphical plan preview of the desired query in your environment.

This graphical representation of the query plan makes it easier to understand and identify performance bottlenecks by highlighting expensive operators, estimates, and actual row counts, allowing you to pinpoint areas that need optimization.

Compare SQL query history

Easily understand historical SQL query execution and find outliers in execution time. Query History displays a graphical representation of the selected query over a specified range of time. Query History provides information about the query execution plans, if they were changed, and how they impacted different resources.

Easily identify suspect statements that run thousands of times in a short period of time and subject your server to "death by a thousand cuts."

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Do you find yourself asking…
“We have had several instances of the ‘Death by a thousand cuts scenario’ where a query wasn't particularly costly, but it was running a ton of times. The Top SQL … feature in [SQL Sentry] helped us find these issues where our old monitoring tools did not.”

Corey Carrender

DBA

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