This new edition of the bestselling guide to a critical SQL server task teaches tools, techniques, and best practices readers can use to tune SQL Server 2000's configuration and operation, and learn how to enhance performance through good physical design, effective internal storage structures, and controlling SQL Server's new query optimizer.

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

Database professionals will find that this new edition aids in mastering the latest version of Microsoft's SQL Server. Developers and database administrators (DBAs) use SQL on a daily basis in application development and the subsequent problem solving and fine tuning. Answers to SQL issues can be quickly located helping the DBA or developer optimize and tune a database to maximum efficiency.Basic questions are easily located on the topics of filtering, sorting, operators, conditionals, pseudo columns, single row functions, joins, grouping functions, sub queries, composite queries, hierarchies, flashback queries, parallel queries, expressions and regular expressions. Assistance on DML, data types (including collections), XML, DDL for basic database objects such as tales, views and indexes, partitioning, and security is also considered.* Identifies and discusses the most common issues database administrators (DBAs) face day-to-day*Provides DBAs with solutions actually used by the authors in enterprise environments*Explores new features which add more control but reduce performance

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

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.

This book is written for SQL Server 2008. However, it does maintain roots going back a few versions and looks out for backward compatibility issues with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. These versions are old enough that there is little to no time spent on them except in passing. The book is oriented around developing on SQL server. Most of the concepts are agnostic to what client language you use although the examples that leverage a client language general do so in C#. For those who are migrating from early versions of SQL Server, some “gotchas” that exist any time a product has versions are discussed to the extent that they seem to be a genuinely relevant issue. This book assumes that you have some experience with SQL Server and are at an intermediate to advanced level. The orientation of the book is highly developer focused. While there is a quick reference-oriented appendix, there is very little coverage given to beginner level topics. It is assumed that you already have experience with data manipulation language (DML) statements and know the basics of the mainstream SQL Server objects (views, stored procedures, user defined functions, etc.). If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before diving into this book, the author recommends reading Beginning SQL Server 2008 Programming first. There is very little overlap between the Beginning and Professional books and they are designed to work as a pair.

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.