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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

Finding fragmentation


Fragmentation is one of the common bottlenecks in performance, if indexes are not being maintained properly. Microsoft recommends going for a REORGANIZE index instead of the resource-consuming REBUILD index, if fragmentation percentage is between 5 and 30. If the fragmentation level is more than 30 percent, then go for the REBUILD index. It is recommended to treat these values as an approximation instead of considering them absolute. From the time of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, this recommended figure has not changed; at the same time, there are many things that have changed from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

"It depends!" is the favorite quote of all IT personnel, and it really depends on our environment. So, first check the server environment to decide what percentage level is good enough for us to go for REBUILD, because many other factors need to be considered while deciding to go for this resource-centric task. The following are a few...