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SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning [Paperback]

Grant Fritchey
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Book Description

June 20, 2012 1430242035 978-1430242031 3

Queries not running fast enough? Tired of the phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques. It is current with SQL Server 2012. It provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.



SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You’ll learn to be proactive in establishing performance baselines using tools like Performance Monitor and Extended Events. You’ll learn to recognize bottlenecks and defuse them before the phone rings. You’ll learn some quick solutions too, but emphasis is on designing for performance and getting it right, and upon heading off trouble before it occurs. Delight your users. Silence that ringing phone. Put the principles and lessons from SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning into practice today.

  • Establish performance baselines and monitor against them
  • Troubleshoot and eliminate bottlenecks that frustrate users
  • Plan ahead to achieve the right level of performance

What you’ll learn

  • Establish performance baselines and monitor against them
  • Recognize and eliminate bottlenecks leading to slow performance
  • Deploy quick fixes when needed, following up with long term solutions
  • Implement best-practices in T-SQL so as to minimize performance risk
  • Design in the performance that you need through careful query and index design
  • Take advantage of the very latest performance optimization features in SQL Server 2012

Who this book is for

SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning is aimed at developers and database administrators having responsibility for application performance in SQL Server environments. Programmers and administrators alike will find the book a trove of good insight into bottlenecks, how to recognize them, how to eliminated them. SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning provides the tools and techniques readers need to create good-performing applications that delight their users.

Table of Contents

  1. SQL Query Performance Tuning
  2. System Performance Analysis
  3. SQL Query Performance Analysis
  4. Index Analysis
  5. Database Engine Tuning Advisor
  6. Lookup Analysis
  7. Statistics Analysis
  8. Fragmentation Analysis
  9. Execution Plan Analysis
  10. Query Recompilation Analysis
  11. Query Design Analysis
  12. Blocking Analysis
  13. Deadlock Analysis
  14. Cursor Cost Analysis
  15. Testing Query Performance
  16. Database Workload Optimization
  17. SQL Server Optimization Checklist

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About the Author

Grant Fritchey works as a development database administrator for FM Global, an industry-leading engineering and insurance company. In his previous time as a database administrator and developer, he has worked at three failed dot-coms, a major consulting company, and a global bank. He has developed large-scale applications in languages such as VB, C#, and Java and has lived with SQL Server from the hoary days of 6.0, right through to 2012. His nickname at work is "The Scary DBA." He even has an official name plate, and he displays it proudly.
Grant volunteers for the Professional Association of SQL Server Users (PASS) and has written and published articles on various topics relating to SQL Server at Simple-Talk, SQL Server Central, SQL Server Performance, the PASS web site, SQL Standard, and the SQL Server Worldwide Users Group. He is the author of the book Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans. He is one of the founding officers of the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG).
Outside work, Grant kayaks, learns and teaches self-defense, brews his own beer, chops wood to heat his house, raises his kids, and helps lead a pack of Cub Scouts.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 532 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 3 edition (June 20, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430242035
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430242031
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Grant Fritchey has more than twenty years experience in IT. That time was spent in technical support, development and database administration. Grant currently works as a Product Evangelist at Red Gate Software. Grant writes articles for publication at SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He has published books including, "SQL Server Execution Plans" and "SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning." Grant has written chapters for "Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration", "SQL Server Team-based Development" "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2" and "Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices." Grant Fritchey was one of the founding officers of the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group.

Grant has been awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2009.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bad printing - Updated June 28, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
My original review:

The book has many issues related to the printing. For instance, page 1 chapter 1:

- Identifyingp roblematicS QLq ueries
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- Evaluatingt hee ffectiveness of the current indexes
- Avoidingb ookmarkl ookups
- Evaluatingt hee ffectiveness of the current statistics
- Analyzinga ndr esolvingf ragmentation
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and so on.

This goes through the whole book.

I am returning it to Amazon in hopes to exchange it for a correctly printed book. Will have to see if I get a good one.

9/8/2012 Update:

After talking with the author and publisher via e-mail, they did make things right and helped me get a non-scrambled book.

Way to stand behind your product!

Anyhow, I just made it through the book and it is a worthy investment. I tend to accumulate a ton of tech books that, frankly, don't really help. Either they are too shallow in their coverage of topics or they are for the beginner.

After reading the non-scrambled text, I found there were many things that will help me on a daily basis.

Thanks again for standing behind your book and thanks for the additional knowledge to help me do my job!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am updating my review since it was quite unfair to base my review on look instead of content. I reviewed the book on type-setting alone, but now that I have started reading the book as best I can, I am finding it to be quite insightful and conceptually sound, as opposed to its manifestation in print. I read your 2008 book and could not wait to receive the 2012 edition, so I guess my anticipation and excitement when it finally arrived carried over to my review. I will update my review when I finish the book, but so far I am extremely impressed. Looks like another keeper and great addition to my growing collection.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book written in an easy to read style by a knowledgeable author. I use this book (and issue copies to my students) when teaching Microsoft's 10775 course on SQL Server 2012 administration; it lets me turn the course into a more substantial PTO (performance tuning and optimization) class, which is the topic that brings most folks into the 10775 class to begin with.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff December 31, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a C++/C# guy and I've always been wanting to attack the SQL DB area but there was no time for it. Finally I had to make time and learn this area and I can say this book did the job fairly well for me. There's a bit of fluffy content that I would have taken out and that's why I rated the book 4 stars instead of 5.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another great book by Grant June 26, 2012
Format:Paperback
I read the previous edition of this book for SQL Server 2008, and there's no doubt in my mind, that was one of the best books on SQL Server ever written. I learned a great deal from it. This new one on SQL Server 2012 is no exception. A must have for any DBA!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
The content of the book is decent, but not overly impressive. It has the benefit of having been released so soon after SQL Server 2012, but you can tell it was rushed out the door. The editing is pretty poorly done, there are a lot of typos. The quality of the printing is extremely poor, all images are of poor quality and it's difficult to make out details. The book could be a four, but the quality of the the editing and printing make it so difficult to read through that I would suggest a pass.
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Yes, book is full of typesetting problems June 22, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Yes, I just received this book as well and it is unreadable with the number of typesetting errors!!! I have never seen a book come out with such poor quality control. This is an instant return, but the publisher never should have shipped the book in the first place. I would give this 0 stars if possible.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! June 26, 2012
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed reading this book, which is not easy for a technical book :)
As a BI consultant, tuning SQL queries is not really a my strong suit, but thanks to the insights Grant has given me into query tuning, I can face the DBA's a little better every day.

Longtime SQL veteran Grant Fritchey really did a great job on this book, and I'd be very happy to recommend it where I can.
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