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.
This book covers the latest in performance optimization features and techniques and is current with SQL Server 2017.
Sample chapters of the ebook have garnered stunning reviews, such as: "All I can say is WOW. This has to be the best reference I have ever seen on Execution Plans in SQL Server. My hats off to Grant Fritchey" Jonathan Kehayias.
Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server 2012 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.
This book is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indexes, and how to best use them.
Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans.
I wrote this book with the singular goal of teaching you how to read SQL Server Execution plans It will explain, among many other things, the following: How to capture execution plans using manual and automatic methods A documented method ...
What You'll LearnApply best practices in implementing Query Store on production servers Detect and correct regressions in query performanceLower the risk of performance degradation following an upgradeUse tools and techniques to get the ...
SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled presents a direct trouble–shooting methodology for identifying poorly-performing stored procedures and queries, isolating the causes of that poor performance, and fixing the underlying ...
Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all ...