Skip to Content
SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide
book

SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

by Marek Chmel
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting wait statistics

In Chapter 6, Indexing and Performance, we have seen several wait types in the Activity Monitor tool. We can use the whole Wait Statistics approach for a thorough understanding of the SQL Server workload and undertake performance troubleshooting based on the collected data. Wait Statistics are based on the fact that, any time a request has to wait for a resource, the SQL Server tracks this information, and we can use this information for further analysis.

When we consider any user process, it can include several threads. A thread is a single unit of execution on SQL Server, where SQLOS controls the thread scheduling instead of relying on the operating system layer. Each processor core has it's own scheduler ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Dejan Sarka, Miloš Radivojević, William Durkin
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Mastering SQL Server 2017

Mastering SQL Server 2017

Milos Radivojevic, Dejan Sarka, William Durkin, Christian Cote, Matija Lah

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781786462541