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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

Running Database Engine Tuning Advisor for workload


Trace is a session during which the events are captured and event data is collected. SQL Server supports a few formats for saving this collected trace data, which is known as a workload. We can save trace data (a workload) in one of the following formats:

  • A trace file with .trc extension name

  • A trace file in XML format with .xml extension name

  • A trace table in an SQL Server database

We are going to use trace file .trc for this recipe. For detailed information regarding trace, workload, and different events of trace in profiler, refer Creating a trace or workload recipe in Chapter 1.

In this recipe, we will create a trace with SQL Server Profiler; execute some queries that will be captured in running profiler trace file and load that trace file in Database Engine Tuning tool to analyze the workload.

Tip

It is recommended to use server-side trace over profiler use on a production server as profiler can consume lot of network bandwidth resources...