HOUR 24. Performance Monitoring

It is important that you build SQL statements that will execute efficiently. Fortunately, SQL Server Management Studio Express provides you with the tools to analyze your SQL statements and ensure that you have built them as efficiently as possible. In this hour you’ll learn about:

How to execute queries in SQL Server Management Studio Express

How to display and analyze the estimated execution plan for a query

How to add indexes to allow queries to execute more efficiently

How to set query options

Executing Queries in SQL Server Management Studio Express

SQL Server 2000 provided a tool called the Query Analyzer. This tool is now built into SQL Server Management Studio Express. You can use this tool to ...

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