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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Overview of this book

As a DBA you must have encountered a slow running application on SQL Server, but there are various factors that could be affecting the performance. If you find yourself in this situation, don't wait, pick up this book and start working towards improving performance of your SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook is divided into three major parts -- Performance Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Performance Management--that are mandatory to deal with performance in any capacity. SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook offers a great way to manage performance with effective, concise, and practical recipes. You will learn how to diagnose performance issues, fix them, and take precaution to avoid common mistakes. Each recipe given in this book is an individual task that will address different performance aspects to take your SQL Server's Performance to a higher level.The first part of this book covers Monitoring with SQL Server Profiler, DTA, System statistical function, SPs with DBCC commands, Resource Monitor & Reliability, and Performance Monitor and Execution Plan. The second part of the book offers Execution Plan, Dynamic Management Views, and Dynamic Management Functions, SQL Server Cache and Stored Procedure Recompilations, Indexes, Important ways to write effective TSQL, Statistics, Table and Index Partitioning, Advanced Query tuning with Query Hints and Plan Guide, Dealing with Locking, Blocking and Deadlocking and Configuring SQL Server for optimization to boost performance.The third and final part gives you knowledge of performance management with help of Policy Based Management and Management with Resource Governor.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Partitioning a table with RANGE RIGHT


As we saw previously, there are two ways to apply partition ranges while performing table partitioning. In this recipe, we will do the same table partitioning that we did in the previous recipe, Partitioning table with RANGE LEFT. However, this time we use the RANGE RIGHT option for our table partitioning.

Getting ready

The following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

  • An instance of SQL Server 2012 Developer or Enterprise Evaluation edition

  • Path C:\SQLData should be available on your machine

How to do it...

Follow the given steps to implement table partitioning with the RANGE RIGHT option:

  1. Start SQL Server Management Studio and connect to SQL Server.

  2. Execute the following T-SQL script to create the Sample_DB database.

    USE master
    GO
    --Creating Sample_DB database
    --if it does not exist.
    --DROP DATABASE Sample_DB
    IF DB_ID('Sample_DB') IS NOT NULL
    DROP DATABASE [Sample_DB]
    CREATE DATABASE [Sample_DB]
    ON PRIMARY
    (
    NAME = N'Sample_DB'
    ,FILENAME = N'C:\SQLData...