SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance

by Grant Fritchey

Troubleshoot slow-performing queries and make them run faster. Database administrators and SQL developers are constantly under pressure to provide more speed. This new edition has been redesigned and rewritten from scratch based on the last 15 years of learning, knowledge, and experience accumulated by the author. The book Includes expanded information on using extended events, automatic execution plan correction, and other advanced features now available in SQL Server. These modern features are covered while still providing the necessary fundamentals to better understand how statistics and indexes affect query performance.
The book gives you knowledge and tools to help you identify poorly performing queries and understand the possible causes of that poor performance. The book also provides mechanisms for resolving the issues identified, whether on-premises, in containers, or on cloud platform providers. You’ll learn about key fundamentals, such as statistics, data distribution, cardinality, and parameter sniffing. You’ll learn to analyze and design your indexes and your queries using best practices that ward off performance problems before they occur. You’ll also learn to use important modern features, such as Query Store to manage and control execution plans, the automated performance tuning feature set, and memory-optimized OLTP tables and procedures. You will be able to troubleshoot in a systematic way. Query tuning doesn’t have to be difficult. This book helps you to make it much easier.



What You Will Learn

Who This Book Is For
Developers and database administrators with responsibility for query performance in SQL Server environments, and anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries and in need of insight into bottlenecks (including how to identify them, understand them, and eliminate them)

748 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2022

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

[John Deardurff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full Disclosure: I was the technical reviewer for this edition of the book. But I've read every edition since at least 2008 and I always learn something new. In this edition Grant started from scratch with a complete re-write of each chapter to incorporate not only the new features of SQL Server 2022, but also his own experience from several decades of being a performance tuning expert. If you are a database administrator or developer this book belongs on your bookshelf or the electronic reading device of your choice.

[Mahdi Khalil Nejad · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's new way to think about Query Performance Tuning.