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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

Optimizing a query using an object plan guide


Plan guide is a feature in SQL Server that you can use to tune queries, which are developed/deployed by third parties and for which you are not allowed to modify the code. With a plan guide, it's possible to attach query hints to the queries that are executed against the database server. A SQL Server attaches the query hints, as specified by the plan guide, to the query before executing it. In this way, an ad-hoc query or a query in the stored procedure can be tuned without changing it in the source code.

There are three types of plan guides, as follows:

  • Object plan guide: Used with stored procedures and user-defined functions

  • SQL plan guide: Used with ad-hoc SQL queries

  • Template plan guide: Used with ad-hoc SQL queries

We will learn how to use an object plan guide to optimize a query for a particular value. An object plan guide is created upon a stored procedure or user defined functions. A SQL query statement specified in the plan guide...