July 2006
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
7h 48m
English
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Chapter 8. Troubleshooting and Optimizing SQL Server
Terms you’ll need to understand:
✓ Statistics
✓ Execution plan
✓ Query Optimizer
✓ Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA)
✓ Lock
✓ Block
✓ Deadlock
✓ Fill factor
✓ Clustered and nonclustered indexes
✓ Covering indexes
✓ Database console command (
DBCC)✓ Alerts
Techniques you’ll need to master:
✓ Creating, updating, and maintaining statistics
✓ Using the DTA
✓ Finding and resolving locking issues
✓ Creating and configuring indexing for performance
✓ Using partitioning to improve performance
✓ Utilizing
DBCCto troubleshoot and repair databases
The topics of troubleshooting and optimization are closely related. Often, the problem you have to troubleshoot is directly associated with performance and resource utilization. ...
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