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Memory Visualizer is a part of the Health Center. With the Memory
Visualizer, you can monitor the memory usage such as sort heaps, buffer pools,
and caches. It displays the memory allocation for a particular instance and all of
its databases. Because many of the memory configuration parameters are
dynamic, you can change these parameters and monitor whether your change
has the expected result.
11.4.6 Design Advisor
Indexes play an important part in tuning the performance. An index is good when
retrieving data because data access is, in general, much faster through an index
than scanning an entire table to find matching rows. However, having indexes is
also an overhead. An inde ...