August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
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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