Product DescriptionThis book approaches Performance tuning from a new perspective. It shows readers how to find performance problems, rather than assuming they already know what the problem is. As such there is more emphasis on diagnostics than in any competitive books. This book also takes a new approach in that we will discuss the limitations imposed on performance tuning by the different stages of a projects life cycle, and help the reader understand how this alters the performance tuning process.
We begin by covering aspects of general end-to-end application tuning (not specific to SQL Server), but then very quickly move to SQL Server specifics, starting with the high level stuff like the basic server resource counters for CPU, memory, and IO, then trying to find the slow queries by looking at SQL Wait types, and using Profiler to find long running, or blocked, or otherwise poorly performing queries. We then move on to demonstrate how to 'fix' the performance of those poorly performing queries.
We also cover the different approaches the DBA might take depending on where the target system is in its lifecycle. This includes the things you can do with an application at the early stages of design (e.g., change pretty much anything from the schema on up, including specifying different hardware). We then cover the very different approach when working with a system running in production (mostly index tuning, some server config, limited T-SQL tuning, no schema changes).
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Rating: - Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning from Wrox ROCKS!
I have long been impressed with Steven Wort as a result of his work at Microsoft & his promiscuous, insightful posts on various SQL Server sites. When I learned he was the lead author of "Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning" I could scarcely wait for its publication.
Now that it's been out for a bit I'm shocked to see only two reviews here on Amazon. This book is a worthy read & well worth a five-star rating.
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Rating: - Excellent
I have been trying to read something that could give me a kick start in performance monitoring and tuning. And, I must say this book has been a great help. I have read many other books but but this book has been - by far- much easier to comprehend and implement. Hats-off to all writters and editors.
Rating: - Practical tuning secrets revealed
I was inheriting a poorly performing 240 Gigabyte database. With just a few chapters, I had the server performing well within the client's specs. The coverage of the features of 2005 are excellent and helps anyone who wants to show that 2005 is competitive with any other enterprise database system.
- Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning from Wrox ROCKS!
- Practical tuning secrets revealed
