Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning.

Title:

Author:

Wort, Steven.

ISBN:

9780470285022

Personal Author:

Wort, Steven.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 pages)

Contents:

Professional SQL Server® 2005 Performance Tuning -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Convention -- Source Code -- Errata -- Part I: Finding Bottlenecks when Something's Wrong -- Chapter 1: Performance Tuning -- Art or Science? -- The Science of Performance Tuning -- Performance Tuning Applied -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Monitoring Server Resources with System Monitor -- Why Might I Need System Monitor? -- When Should I Use System Monitor? -- Performance Monitor Overview -- Getting Started with System Monitor -- What's the Impact of Running System Monitor? -- How Much Data Will System Monitor Generate? -- Resource Utilization -- Identifying Bottlenecks -- Using System Monitor Proactively -- Running System Monitor on 64-bit Systems -- Combining System Monitor Logs and SQL Profiler Traces -- Monitoring Remote Servers -- Best Practices for System Monitor -- My System Monitor Counters Are Missing-What Should I Do? -- Built-in Log Management Tools -- Analyzing Log Data -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Monitoring SQL Server Resources with System Monitor -- The Beginning -- Types of Performance Problems -- Types of Bottlenecks -- Memory Bottlenecks -- CPU Bottlenecks -- Disk Bottlenecks -- Monitoring Database Mirroring Performance -- Monitoring Wait Statistics -- Typical Performance Problems -- Using SQL Server to Analyze Performance Logs -- Combining Performance Monitor Logs and SQL Profiler Trace -- Summary -- Chapter 4: SQL Server Wait Types -- SQL Server Waits -- Architecture -- Common or Noteworthy Resource Wait Types -- How to Track Waits -- Locking and Blocking -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Finding Problem Queries with SQL Profiler -- Preparations for Setting Up a Trace -- Capturing Blocking Events.

Capturing Showplan XML Data -- Capturing Deadlock Graphs -- Identifying Long-Running Queries Using SQL Profiler -- Tracing Costly Queries by Using Profiler to Generate Server-Side Trace Code -- Correlating a Profiler Trace with System Monitor Performance Counter Data -- Summary -- Part II: Removing Bottlenecks with Tuning -- Chapter 6: Choosing and Configuring Hardware -- Server Bottlenecks -- Configuring the Server -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Tuning SQL Server Configuration -- Considerations before Adjusting Server Level Settings -- Inspecting Current SQL Server Settings -- Important Server Settings: CPU, Memory, and I/O -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Tuning the Schema -- Data Quality -- Data Performance -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Tuning T-SQL -- Opening Move: The Optimizer's Gameplan -- Middle Game: Gathering the Facts -- End Game: Performance Tuning T-SQL -- Tuning T-SQL with a New Approach -- Tuning the T-SQL Predicate -- Tuning T-SQL to Use Indexes -- Tuning T-SQL Common Patterns or Idioms -- Tuning the T-SQL Statement with Hints -- Tuning for Deadlocking and Blocking -- Simulated Stress Testing for Query Plans -- Summary -- Part III: Preventative Measures and Baselining Performance with Tools -- Chapter 10: Capturing, Measuring, and Replaying a Workload Using SQL Profiler -- Capturing Workloads for Replay -- Measuring Workload Performance -- Replaying a Workload -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Tuning Indexes -- Sample Database -- Section 1: Indexing Review -- Section 2: Tuning with DTA -- Section 3: Index Maintenance -- Section 4: Partitioned Tables and Indexes -- Summary -- Chapter 12: How Fast and Robust Is Your Storage? -- Performance Testing, Stress Testing, and Real-Life Performance -- Storage Performance -- Storage Reliability -- Summary -- Chapter 13: SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports -- Supportability -- Performance Dashboard Reports.

Related Links -- Summary -- Part IV: Roadmap to Server Performance -- Chapter 14: Best Practices for Designing for Performance from the Start -- Understanding Your Performance Requirements -- Evaluating Schemas for Performance Unknowns -- Evaluating Indexes for Performance -- Benchmarking for Evaluation -- Communicating Performance Issues -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Successful Deployment Strategies -- Sizing -- Additional Features -- High Availability and Disaster Recovery -- Load Testing -- Managing Change -- Dealing with Large Tables -- Tuning Using SQL Server Profiler -- Tuning Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor -- Consequences of Incorrectly Sizing the Production Environment -- Schema Issues in Production -- Avoiding Changing Code to Fix Issues -- Summary -- Index.

Abstract:

Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. In addition, the authors demonstrate how to make use of the key tools for SQL Server Performance tuning. Broken into four parts, the book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something is wrong and how to monitor SQL Server to see whether there is a resource bottleneck. You'll then learn how to identify and remove the problems that are causing poor performance. The next section explains the preventive measures you can take to try to avoid a performance problem entirely. Finally, you'll learn how to achieve better performance and you'll take a look at some of the challenges involving performance tuning at the later stages of a product's life. What you will learn from this book How to use the SQL Server wait types to find resource bottlenecks and the queries that are creating them Ways to tune and configure the schema so you can remove bottlenecks Techniques for creating standard workloads for use in performance testing Benefits of storage subsystem performance and robustness How to use SQLIO and SQLIOSim to their full potential Best practices for a successful deployment Who this book is for This book is for consultants, developers, DBAs, architects, or anyone with an interest in SQL performance. A working knowledge of T-SQL and knowledge of how to perform basic SQL Server and OS administrative tasks is necessary. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day.

They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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