June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
One of the most useful features added back in SQL Server 2012 is the ability to use SQL Server’s query plan cache as the source of the workload you want to use as the basis of tuning. This is really useful because you have a great mix of queries that have been hitting the database that represent the typical variety of queries you want to optimize on and that you want to leverage for all around tuning results. There is also an ability to utilize production metadata, statistics, and hardware information to help tune your database but still be executing on a test server. (This feature is only available via the command line DTA utility, though.) This allows you to get tuning recommendations ...
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