SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance

by Grant Fritchey

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.




What You'll 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

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.

963 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2018

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

[Justinas Mockus · Rating 5 out of 5]

1,6 kg of SQL server tuning knowledge.