Chapter 17

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SQL Server Optimization Checklist

If you have read through the previous 16 chapters of this book, then you understand the major aspects involved in performance optimization. You also understand that it is a challenging and ongoing activity.

What I hope to do in this chapter is to provide a performance-monitoring checklist that can serve as a quick reference for database developers and DBAs when in the field. The idea is similar to the notion of tear-off cards of best practices. This chapter does not cover everything, but it does summarize, in one place, some of the major tuning activities that can have a quick and demonstrable impact ...

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