SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

Fritchey, Grant and Sajal Dam:

ISBN 10: 1430242035 / ISBN 13: 9781430242031

Published by Apress, 2012

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532 Seiten; 9781430242031.2 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Seller Inventory # 1122075

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1430242035
• ISBN 13: 9781430242031
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 1 gram
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Queries not running fast enough? Tired of the phone calls from frustrated users? 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. It is current with SQL Server 2012. It provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.

SQL Server 2012 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 designing for 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 2012 Query Performance Tuning into practice today.

• Establish performance baselines and monitor against them
• Troubleshoot and eliminate bottlenecks that frustrate users
• Plan ahead to achieve the right level of performance

About the Author

Grant Fritchey 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 2012. His nickname at work is "The Scary DBA." He even has an official name plate, and he displays it proudly.
Grant 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 Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans. He is one of the founding officers of the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG).
Outside 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.