This book aims to improve the performance of your SQL Servers, how does it fare? The book discusses methods and tools, that can be used to identify and fix common SQL Server problems, using a ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

This paper demystifies query tuning by providing a rigorous 12-step process that database professionals at any level can use to systematically assess and adjust query performance, starting from the ...

The previous chapters have looked largely at changes outside tables that may improve performance. This chapter now looks deeper at changes to tables, heaps, and indexes that might improve performance.