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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ritesh Shah
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Monitoring current query execution statistics

In order to perform query tuning on production database server, you need to identify those resource-consuming queries and the source from where they are coming. For this, you need to monitor the incoming query requests and examine their execution time, number of read/write operations, and so on.

SQL Server has dedicated a separate category of DMVs and DMFs to query execution statistics. These DMVs and DMFs provide a wide range of statistics on query execution requests. The names of these execution-related DMVs and DMFs are generally prefixed by sys.dm_exec_. By examining the results returned by these DMVs and DMFs, you can find out long-running and resource-consuming queries, and pick them up for query ...

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