Overview
- Covers cutting-edge features such as Query Store, adaptive execution plans, and automated tuning in Azure SQL Database
- Is current with SQL Server 2017, while also covering older editions back to 2012
- Alerts you to changes in the cardinality estimation and query optimization engines that can lead to poor performance
- Describes new tooling introduced in SQL Server 2017 SQL Server Management Studio
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About this book
Identify and fix causes of poor performance. You will learn Query Store, adaptive execution plans, and automated tuning on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database platform. Anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries will find valuable the insight into bottlenecks, including how to recognize them and eliminate them.
This book covers the latest in performance optimization features and techniques and is current with SQL Server 2017. If your queries are not running fast enough and you’re tired of phone calls from frustrated users, then this book is the answer to your performance problems.
SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning is about more than quick tips and fixes. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools such as Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll recognize bottlenecks and defuse them before the phone rings. You’ll learn some quick solutions too, but emphasis is on designing for performance and getting it right. The goal is to head off trouble before it occurs.
What You'll Learn
- Use Query Store to understand and easily change query performance
- Recognize and eliminate bottlenecks leading to slow performance
- Deploy quick fixes when needed, following up with long-term solutions
- Implement best practices in T-SQL to minimize performance risk
- Design in the performance that you need through careful query and index design
- Utilize the latest performance optimization features in SQL Server 2017
- Protect query performance during upgrades to the newer versions of SQL Server
Who This Book Is For
Developers and database administrators with responsibility for application performance in SQL Server environments. Anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries will find valuable the insight into bottlenecks, including how to recognize them and eliminate them.
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Keywords
- Performance Optimization
- Query Store
- Automated Tuning
- Azure SQL Database
- Extended Events
- SQL Server Query Plans
- SQL Server Execution Plans
- SQL Server Query Execution Plans
- SQL Server Performance Best Practices
- Adaptive Execution Plans
- Columnstore
- Cardinality estimation
- SQL Server Management Studio
- SQL Server statistics
- Deadlocks
- Locking
Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning
Book Subtitle: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Authors: Grant Fritchey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3888-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Grant Fritchey 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3888-2Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XXXI, 932
Number of Illustrations: 412 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management, Microsoft and .NET