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Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. The book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something is wrong and you’ll then learn how to identify and remove the problems that are causing poor performance. You’ll discover preventive measures you can take to try to avoid a performance problem entirely and you’ll learn how to achieve better performance.
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Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning
Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. In addition, the authors demonstrate how to make use of the key tools for SQL Server Performance tuning.
Broken into four parts, the book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something is wrong and how to monitor SQL Server to see whether there is a resource bottleneck. You′ll then learn how to identify and remove the problems that are causing poor performance. The next section explains the preventive measures you can take to try to avoid a performance problem entirely. Finally, you′ll learn how to achieve better performance and you′ll take a look at some of the challenges involving performance tuning at the later stages of a product′s life.
What you will learn from this book
How to use the SQL Server wait types to find resource bottlenecks and the queries that are creating them
Ways to tune and configure the schema so you can remove bottlenecks
Techniques for creating standard workloads for use in performance testing
Benefits of storage subsystem performance and robustness
How to use SQLIO and SQLIOSim to their full potential
Best practices for a successful deployment
Who this book is for
This book is for consultants, developers, DBAs, architects, or anyone with an interest in SQL performance. A working knowledge of T–SQL and knowledge of how to perform basic SQL Server and OS administrative tasks is necessary.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The first couple of hundred pages are very very good, providing excellent instructions about how to get the best out of Perfmon, Profiler, DMVs - together with tuning tips.
I did delay buying this as ideally I wanted an edition for SQL2008, and especially wanted a book that included a section on the issues that SQL has on virtualisation.
I did delay buying this as ideally I wanted an edition for SQL2008, and especially wanted a book that included a section on the issues that SQL has on virtualisation.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning from Wrox ROCKS!
12 July 2008
Format:Paperback
I have long been impressed with Steven Wort as a result of his work at Microsoft & his promiscuous, insightful posts on various SQL Server sites. When I learned he was the lead author of "Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning" I could scarcely wait for its publication.
Now that it's been out for a bit I'm shocked to see only two reviews here on Amazon. This book is a worthy read & well worth a five-star rating.
I am extremely impressed at the utility of this book. Information related to SQL Server performance is fairly ubiquitous, yet this work is unique in its approach. I know of no other reference ever written for SQL Server which amalgamates such great information integrated from the perspective of hardware, fundamental schema design, & tools.
For example, Steven introduces a tool which cleverly leverages the SQLIO.exe tool as well as explains how to use it. I've never seen anything quite like it. It's so useful I use it at almost all of my customer sites.
In fact, I recommend this book to all my customers & colleagues.
If the book has a deficit, it's a mixed one. Though it cites the importance of disk partition alignment, an arcane yet critical component of disk configuration, the text unfortunately fails to provide the information required to implement it.
No book can be a one-stop reference for a concept as broad as SQL Server performance, yet Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning comes as close as any I've seen.
--Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek
Now that it's been out for a bit I'm shocked to see only two reviews here on Amazon. This book is a worthy read & well worth a five-star rating.
I am extremely impressed at the utility of this book. Information related to SQL Server performance is fairly ubiquitous, yet this work is unique in its approach. I know of no other reference ever written for SQL Server which amalgamates such great information integrated from the perspective of hardware, fundamental schema design, & tools.
For example, Steven introduces a tool which cleverly leverages the SQLIO.exe tool as well as explains how to use it. I've never seen anything quite like it. It's so useful I use it at almost all of my customer sites.
In fact, I recommend this book to all my customers & colleagues.
If the book has a deficit, it's a mixed one. Though it cites the importance of disk partition alignment, an arcane yet critical component of disk configuration, the text unfortunately fails to provide the information required to implement it.
No book can be a one-stop reference for a concept as broad as SQL Server performance, yet Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning comes as close as any I've seen.
--Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Practical tuning secrets revealed
11 April 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was inheriting a poorly performing 240 Gigabyte database. With just a few chapters, I had the server performing well within the client's specs. The coverage of the features of 2005 are excellent and helps anyone who wants to show that 2005 is competitive with any other enterprise database system.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive, Practical and Informative!!!!
8 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
From my experience with SQL Server and Oracle for the last 15 years of my IT experience, Database Performance tuning is more of an art and science (even though the book says it is more of a science). As SQL Server transformed into different versions, the information to gather performance related data matrix improved. Hence, the quest for ways to get information on how to troubleshoot performance problems in SQL Server grew.
I have referred many books on SQL Server Performance Tuning, but most of the books I have referred provided generic information and go on describing mundane performance tuning methods such as SQL Profiler, Execution Plan and Performance Logs without any examples to refer or try with. I did not find many books that deal with performance tuning concepts from ground up. This book defines the performance tuning concepts from ground up and also describes the "how and what" data point to gather, measure and analyze to troubleshoot the performance problems.
Book starts with good introduction to the basic concepts of Performance Tuning in a methodical approach. It defines how to understand a problem statement, how to go about solving those problems and how to prevent it from occurring. The book goes about all facets of performance tuning such as Server and database tuning, SQL tuning, creating a workload for creating a performance benchmark, system tuning for memory, processor and storage.
I liked the chapters dealing with SQL Server Wait types, Tuning Indexes, Tuning Schema and Capturing, Measuring and Replying workloads.
Like any other book, it has some shortcomings too. For instance there are some typos and which can easily be caught if you understand the subject in the chapter.
So I will suggest if you are an experience DBA or a DBA who wants to get into Performance Tuning (a good line to be in!!), please add this book to your cart!!!!(no.. I was not paid to write this!!)
I have referred many books on SQL Server Performance Tuning, but most of the books I have referred provided generic information and go on describing mundane performance tuning methods such as SQL Profiler, Execution Plan and Performance Logs without any examples to refer or try with. I did not find many books that deal with performance tuning concepts from ground up. This book defines the performance tuning concepts from ground up and also describes the "how and what" data point to gather, measure and analyze to troubleshoot the performance problems.
Book starts with good introduction to the basic concepts of Performance Tuning in a methodical approach. It defines how to understand a problem statement, how to go about solving those problems and how to prevent it from occurring. The book goes about all facets of performance tuning such as Server and database tuning, SQL tuning, creating a workload for creating a performance benchmark, system tuning for memory, processor and storage.
I liked the chapters dealing with SQL Server Wait types, Tuning Indexes, Tuning Schema and Capturing, Measuring and Replying workloads.
Like any other book, it has some shortcomings too. For instance there are some typos and which can easily be caught if you understand the subject in the chapter.
So I will suggest if you are an experience DBA or a DBA who wants to get into Performance Tuning (a good line to be in!!), please add this book to your cart!!!!(no.. I was not paid to write this!!)
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