SQL Server 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii SQL Query Performance Tuning....Pages 1-15 Memory Performance Analysis....Pages 17-34 Disk Performance Analysis....Pages 35-46 CPU Performance Analysis....Pages 47-56 Creating a Baseline....Pages 57-68 Query Performance Metrics....Pages 69-84 Analyzing Query Performance....Pages 85-109 Index Architecture and Behavior....Pages 111-142 Index Analysis....Pages 143-163 Database Engine Tuning Advisor....Pages 165-180 Key Lookups and Solutions....Pages 181-192 Statistics, Data Distribution, and Cardinality....Pages 193-235 Index Fragmentation....Pages 237-267 Execution Plan Generation....Pages 269-281 Execution Plan Cache Behavior....Pages 283-309 Parameter Sniffing....Pages 311-319 Query Recompilation....Pages 321-354 Query Design Analysis....Pages 355-377 Reduce Query Resource Use....Pages 379-395 Blocking and Blocked Processes....Pages 397-441 Causes and Solutions for Deadlocks....Pages 443-458 Row-by-Row Processing....Pages 459-481 Memory-Optimized OLTP Tables and Procedures....Pages 483-504 Database Performance Testing....Pages 505-513 Database Workload Optimization....Pages 515-546 SQL Server Optimization Checklist....Pages 547-564 Back Matter....Pages 565-575 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