Apress | SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot And Optimize Query Performance, 5th Edition (2018 EN)

Author: Grant Fritchey
Full Title: SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot And Optimize Query Performance, 5th Edition
Publisher: Apress; 5th ed. edition (September 4, 2018)
Year: 2018
ISBN-13: 9781484238882 (978-1-4842-3888-2), 9781484238875 (978-1-4842-3887-5)
ISBN-10: 1484238885, 1484238877
Pages: 932
Language: English
Genre: Educational: Database Management
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True), Code Files
Quality: 10/10
Price: 53.49 €


Identify and fix causes of poor performance. You will learn Query Store, adaptive execution plans, and automated tuning on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database platform. Anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries will find valuable the insight into bottlenecks, including how to recognize them and eliminate them.

This book covers the latest in performance optimization features and techniques and is current with SQL Server 2017. If your queries are not running fast enough and you’re tired of phone calls from frustrated users, then this book is the answer to your performance problems.

SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning is about more than quick tips and fixes. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools such as Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll 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. The goal is to head off trouble before it occurs.


Learn:
✓ Use Query Store to understand and easily change query performance
✓ Recognize and eliminate bottlenecks leading to slow performance
✓ Deploy quick fixes when needed, following up with long-term solutions
✓ Implement best practices in T-SQL to minimize performance risk
✓ Design in the performance that you need through careful query and index design
✓ Utilize the latest performance optimization features in SQL Server 2017
✓ Protect query performance during upgrades to the newer versions of SQL Server

Features:
✓ Covers cutting-edge features such as Query Store, adaptive execution plans, and automated tuning in Azure SQL Database
✓ Is current with SQL Server 2017, while also covering older editions back to 2012
✓ Alerts you to changes in the cardinality estimation and query optimization engines that can lead to poor performance
✓ Describes new tooling introduced in SQL Server 2017 SQL Server Management Studio

Who This Book Is For:
Developers and database administrators with responsibility for application performance in SQL Server environments. Anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries will find valuable the insight into bottlenecks, including how to recognize them and eliminate them.

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