SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques, especially including the newly-added, in-memory database features formerly known under the code name Project Hekaton. This book provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools like Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll learn to recognize bottlenecks and defuse them before the phone rings. You’ll learn some quick solutions too, but emphasis is on designingfor performance and getting it right, and upon heading off trouble before it occurs. Delight your users. Silence that ringing phone. Put the principles and lessons from SQL Server Query Performance Tuning into practice today.

  • Covers the in-memory features from Project Hekaton
  • Helps establish performance baselines and monitor against them
  • Guides in troubleshooting and eliminating of bottlenecks that frustrate users

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques, especially including the newly-added, in-memory database features formerly known under the code name Project Hekaton. This book provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools like Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll learn to recognize bottlenecks and defuse them before the phone rings. You’ll learn some quick solutions too, but emphasis is on designingfor performance and getting it right, and upon heading off trouble before it occurs. Delight your users. Silence that ringing phone. Put the principles and lessons from SQL Server Query Performance Tuning into practice today.

  • Covers the in-memory features from Project Hekaton
  • Helps establish performance baselines and monitor against them
  • Guides in troubleshooting and eliminating of bottlenecks that frustrate users

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

by Grant Fritchey
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

by Grant Fritchey

Overview

Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques, especially including the newly-added, in-memory database features formerly known under the code name Project Hekaton. This book provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools like Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll learn to recognize bottlenecks and defuse them before the phone rings. You’ll learn some quick solutions too, but emphasis is on designingfor performance and getting it right, and upon heading off trouble before it occurs. Delight your users. Silence that ringing phone. Put the principles and lessons from SQL Server Query Performance Tuning into practice today.

  • Covers the in-memory features from Project Hekaton
  • Helps establish performance baselines and monitor against them
  • Guides in troubleshooting and eliminating of bottlenecks that frustrate users

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781430267423
Publisher: Apress
Publication date: 09/16/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 612
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

pstrongGrant Fritchey/strong works as a development database administrator for FM Global, an industry-leading engineering and insurance company. In his previous time as a database administrator and developer, he has worked at three failed dot-coms, a major consulting company, and a global bank. He has developed large-scale applications in languages such as VB, C#, and Java and has lived with SQL Server from the hoary days of 6.0, right through to 2008. His nickname at work is "The Scary DBA." He even has an official name plate, and he displays it proudly. /p pGrant volunteers for the Professional Association of SQL Server Users (PASS) and has written and published articles on various topics relating to SQL Server at Simple-Talk, SQL Server Central, SQL Server Performance, the PASS web site, SQL Standard, and the SQL Server Worldwide Users Group. He is the author of the book emDissecting SQL Server Execution Plans/em. He is one of the founding officers of the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG)./p pOutside work, Grant kayaks, learns and teaches self-defense, brews his own beer, chops wood to heat his house, raises his kids, and helps lead a pack of Cub Scouts./p

Table of Contents

1. SQL Query Performance Tuning

2. Memory Performance Analysis

3. Disk Performance Analysis

4. CPU Performance Analysis

5. Creating a Baseline

6. SQL Query Performance

7. SQL Query Performance

8. Index Architecture and Behavior

9. Index Analysis

10. Database Engine Tuning Advisor

11. Key Lookups and Solutions

12. Statistics, Data Distribution, and Cardinality

13. Index Fragmentation

14. Execution Plan Generation

15. Execution Plan Cache Behavior

16. Parameter Sniffing

17. Query Recompilation

18. Query Design Analysis

19. Reduce Query Resource Use

20. Blocking and Blocked Processes

21. Causes and Solutions for Deadlocks

22. Row-By-Row Processing

23. Memory-Optimized OLTP Tables and Procedures

24. Database Performance Testing

25. Database Workload Optimization

26. SQL Server Optimization Checklist

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