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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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Overview of this book

Take advantage of the real power of SQL Server 2017 with all its new features, in addition to covering core database administration tasks. This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you quickly learn how to design, manage, and secure your database solution. You will learn how to set up your SQL Server and configure new (and existing) environments for optimal use. After covering the designing aspect, the book delves into performance-tuning aspects by teaching you how to effectively use indexes. The book will also teach you about certain choices that need to be made about backups and how to implement a rock-solid security policy and keep your environment healthy. Finally, you will learn about the techniques you should use when things go wrong, and other important topics, such as migration, upgrading, and consolidation, are covered in detail. Integration with Azure is also covered in depth. Whether you are an administrator or thinking about entering the field, this book will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create, design, and deploy databases using SQL Server 2017.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Performance monitoring and tuning

Performance monitoring and tuning is a crucial part of your database administration skill set so as to keep the performance and stability of your server great, and to be able to find and fix the possible issues. The overall system performance can decrease over time; your system may work with more data or even become totally unresponsive. In such cases, you need the skills and tools to find the issue to bring the server back to normal as fast as possible. We can use several tools on the operating system layer and, then, inside the SQL Server to verify the performance and the possible root cause of the issue.

The first tool that we can use is the performance monitor, which is available on your Windows Server:

Performance monitor can be used to track important SQL Server counters, which can be very helpful in evaluating the SQL Server Performance...