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Be Your Developer’s Best Friend

By Jesper Johansen

When asked to write a chapter for this book, I was in doubt about which subject to choose. Should I write about common problems I normally see? About how Microsoft SQL Server’s easy installation is at the same time a strength and a weakness? About how to fix the 10 most general problems with SQL Server installation by querying a couple of dynamic management views (DMVs) ? Or how about the Yet Another Performance Profiling (YAPP) method —a well-known performance method in the Oracle community that is just as usable in SQL Server with the implementation of Extended Events and DMVs that ...

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