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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

Introduction


Microsoft made database administrators very happy by introducing a feature called Policy-based Management (PBM). PBM helps administrators to manage one or more instances of SQL Server and manage database entities and/or other SQL Server objects, based on the policy defined in PBM. It helps DBAs to apply/enforce policies for server objects and databases, or to manage different tasks effortlessly and effectively.

The following terms will be needed in the recipes coming up in this chapter, so keep them in mind to ensure that you can understand all the recipes properly:

  • Policies: Defined rules for the database or server objects under Policy-Based Management

  • Conditions: A condition is a Boolean value that shows the status of facets

  • Facets: A set of properties that models the behavior of a target in Policy-Based Management

Note

A few years ago, when I visited a small company, I observed that there were no rules defined for naming conventions. All the user stored procedures in that...