SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

by Grant Fritchey

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.

Genres: Programming

1008 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 2014

About the author

I have over thirty years experience working in technical support, development and database administration. I'm work for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder. I write articles for publication at SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. I present sessions at events, large and small, all around the world and online. I work with both SQL Server and PostgreSQL and have authored multiple books on a variety of topics related to databases and data management.

Reviews

[Sebastian Gebski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tremendous book - and a great example of how technical book should look alike.

Dives very deep, I've found here some very interesting details I haven't seen anywhere else. It was one of very few cases when after reading a book I can fully confirm that it had a significant impact on my knowledge on topic.

What did I like most?
* description of how particular isolation levels are implemented in terms of locking (seriously - such a simple thing, but I haven't seen that anywhere else)
* very nice analysis of performance implications of using non-clustered index that are not fully covering - I think I finally fully understand consequences of using look-ups in different situations
* chapters on locks was very good, but this particular topics has several good references available, so this shouldn't be a sole reason to buy this book

Obviously, it's not a kind of easy-read that you can grok through just like that. You should treat it more like a reference you'll get through once to learn the key points & keep referring later - in case of a particular need.

Recommended.