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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action
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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

by Rodney C. Colledge
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 17. Waits and queues:a performance-tuning methodology

Performance tuning, particularly performance troubleshooting, can be tough work. With entire books (and careers) dedicated to this topic, what can we possibly hope to achieve in a single chapter? Rather than attempt to provide a root cause analysis for a wide variety of potential performance problems, the goal of this chapter is to introduce you to a performance-tuning methodology called waits and queues.

Tom Davidson's excellent whitepaper SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues is a must read for anyone interested in SQL Server performance tuning. Equally applicable to SQL Server 2008, it argues the case for a targeted approach to performance tuning by determining the resources that processes ...

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