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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

Monitoring of server performance


If you are approached by someone and told that the server hosting the instance of SQL Server is running and responding very slowly, which tool would you prefer to first open to have a quick review of server performance?

You may have used Task Manager in the past, to quickly check the health of the server. We have yet another, similar, but new and powerful tool in our pocket that can be used to quickly check the health of the server resources. Yes, we are talking about Resource Monitor! As its name suggests, we can use Resource Monitor to monitor the various resources of the system.

In this recipe, we will have an overview of how we can use Resource Monitor to quickly monitor hardware resources and server performance.

Getting ready

The following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

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

  • Resource Monitor, as installed with Windows OS

  • A sample AdventureWorks2012 database on the instance of SQL...