Location: Remote
Experience: 5+ years
Core Knowledge Areas
- Execution Flow
- Understanding of SQL query execution plans
- Ability to analyze step-by-step query processing
- SQL Profiler
- Experience in using SQL Profiler for monitoring and troubleshooting
- Identifying performance bottlenecks through trace analysis
- System Tables & Index Statistics
- Familiarity with sys tables to fetch metadata and statistics
- Ability to evaluate index usage and efficiency
Performance Optimization Techniques
- Query Optimization
- Writing simplified queries for better efficiency
- Using Common Table Expressions (CTEs) effectively
- Indexing Strategies
- Knowledge of Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes
- Choosing appropriate indexing methods based on workload
- Partitioning
- Implementing table partitioning for large datasets
- Enhancing query performance through partition-aware design
- Views & Temporary Structures
- Leveraging Views for abstraction and performance
- Using Temp Tables for intermediate data handling
