Queries are one of the fundamental tools for manipulating data within SQL Server, and knowledge o f them is a necessity. This book uses a focused and practical approach to provide you with the most efficient methods to employ with queries. It focuses on the means SQL Server provides to understand the cost of a query, and provides recommendations for ways to remedy poorly-performing queries.All the information provided is based on the author's real-world experience and highlights the most cost-effective situations to everyday use of SQL Server. He details the steps that you can follow to troubleshoot and resolve SQL query performance.SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled shows you:How to identify problematic SQL queries How to analyze a query execution plan How to evaluate the effectiveness of the current indexing techniques How to evaluate the effectiveness of statistics How to analyze and avoid stored procedure recompilation How to analyze plan caching How to analyze and minimize blocking How to analyze and avoid deadlocks How to analyze the cost of using a specific cursor type
- ISBN10 159059164X
- ISBN13 9781590591642
- Publish Date 15 March 2003 (first published 11 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint APress
- Format Paperback
- Pages 540
- Language English