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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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The Database Engine Tuning Advisor GUI

From the Tools menu in SSMS, you can select the Database Engine Tuning Advisor option to invoke the GUI for DTA. (You can also invoke this GUI by selecting Start, All Programs, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Performance Tools, Database Engine Tuning Adviser Program from your desktop.) You are asked to initiate a new session for doing database tuning analysis.

Note

It’s best not to run the DTA against a live production database. You should make a copy of the database in a safe place for this type of detailed analysis. You should use a copy of the production database, though, because you want all decisions to be based on reality, and your workload should also reflect true production data accesses.

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