Learn from a SQL Server performance authority how to make your database run at lightning speed. Ken England's SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook is recognized by SQL Server administrators as the indispensable guide to tuning and optimization. Now he's revised the book for Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000, the most advanced and powerful version yet of SQL Server, which takes full advantage of Windows 2000's new processing capabilities. The book details the factors that determine database performance and offers readers tools, techniques and best practices they can use to tweak and tune SQL Server's configuration and operation. Readers will learn how to enhance performance through good physical design and effective internal storage structures. The book spells out methods for creating efficient indexes and techniques for tuning SQL Server's new query optimizer. A new edition of the authoritative and bestselling guide, SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook, 1555581803 Targets SQL Server 2000 Helps IT professionals run SQL Server more powerfully and efficiently and optimize it for e-commerce and knowledge management

This title provides all the information that developers and database administrators need to configure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for optimum performance and scalability. Unlike other SQL Server 2000 tuning books on the market, it teaches not just about the SQL Server relational database management system, but also about how to get the most out of the underlying operating system and hardware.

Discover how to optimize your SQL Server 7*0 system for maximum performance and scalability. Performance tuning a relational database can be challenging, exciting, and frustrating. " MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7*0 PERFORMANCE TUNING TECHNICAL REFERENCE " provides the practical information that database administrators need to configure a SQL Server 7*0 database for better, faster, more scalable solutions. This is the only book about SQL Server 7*0 performance tuning co-authored by engineers from the Microsoft SQL Server performance group. The authors start with the basics, and then build upon this information to teach the mechanics of performance tuning and how those mechanics affect the whole system. What's more, this book is unique in that it also teaches you how to optimize for the underlying operating system and hardware. Expert Instruction helps you understand these topics. Server tuning : how to use the Enterprise Manager, SQL Server Performance Monitor, and Profiler to shorten transaction response times, and how to optimize your database layout to get the best use of hardware resources. Sizing and capacity planning : how to model software and hardware usage to predict resource consumption, plus how to perform what-if scenarios about workload growth to avoid slow response times. Configuring and tuning the system : how to tune OLTP systems, data warehouses and data marts, and replicated systems, and how to set up your system for high-performance backup and recovery. Tuning SQL statements : how to get optimal performance by using the Query Analyzer and Profiler to tune SQL statements and stored procedures, plus how to take advantage of indexes and hints.

CD-ROM contains: presentation slides for chapters in text; review questions from text; instructions on performing tasks in SQL server; script files for chapters in text.

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 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 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

Optimize Microsoft SQL Server 2014 queries and applications Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization is filled with ready-to-use techniques for creating high-performance queries and applications. The book describes the inner workings of the query processor so you can write better queries and provide the query processor with the quality information it needs to produce efficient execution plans. You’ll also get tips for troubleshooting underperforming queries. In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton), a key new feature of SQL Server 2014, is fully covered in this practical guide. Understand how the query optimizer works Troubleshoot queries using extended events, SQL trace, dynamic management views (DMVs), the data collector, and other tools Work with query operators for data access, joins, aggregations, parallelism, and updates Speed up queries and dramatically improve application performance by creating the right indexes Understand statistics and how to detect and fix cardinality estimation errors Maximize OLTP query performance using In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) features, including memory-optimized tables and natively compiled stored procedures Monitor and promote plan caching and reuse to improve application performance Improve the performance of data warehouse queries using columnstore indexes Handle query processor limitations with hints and other methods

A very practical guide to making databases run faster and better. A poorly performing database application can cost each user time, and have an impact on other applications running on the same computer or the same network. This book will help DBAUs and programmers improve the performance of their databases.