SQL Server 2012 - Query Performance Tuning

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 This revised edition covers the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques in SQL Server 2014, including the newly-added, in-memory database features formerly known under the code name Project Hekaton