|
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning & Optimization
Dig into the internals of tuning and optimization features in SQL Server 2005 - with insights from leading SQL Server experts. This in-depth guide delivers best practices, pragmatic advice, and code samples to help you enable efficient, effective queries - and optimize database performance. Discover how to: *Create a baseline and monitor workload by
using System Monitor and DMVs *Design, manipulate, and manage traces to isolate database performance issues *Audit user activity by using built-in default, black box, and Common Criteria traces *Analyze query execution using scans and seeks, joins, aggregations, unions, and parallelism *Generate efficient and cost-effective queries using cached plans or new plans *Detect and resolve locking, blocking, and deadlocking concurrency issues *Use best practices to diagnose and troubleshoot response time, throughput, and scalability issues PLUS - Includes Transact-SQL code samples and on the Web
CONTENTS:
A Performance Troubleshooting Methodology
Tracing and Profiling
Query Execution
Troubleshooting Query Performance
Plan Caching and Recompilation
Concurrency Problems
|