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 ...

SQL Server performance tuning is a complex topic due to how layered it is. While performance problems can often be traced back to data storage issues, the performance tuning process is a "holistic ...

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 ...

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.