SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning

by Grant Fritchey

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

1559 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 19, 2012

About the author

I have over thirty years experience working in technical support, development and database administration. I'm work for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder. I write articles for publication at SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. I present sessions at events, large and small, all around the world and online. I work with both SQL Server and PostgreSQL and have authored multiple books on a variety of topics related to databases and data management.

Reviews

[f1yegor]

I've read this in 2014-2015

[Rafire]

One of the best books that I have come across to understand sql server performance tuning and apply in a real time environment. Author has included practical examples and code to explain most of the topics. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in sql server performance tuning.

[Delhi Irc]

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[Daniel Paduck]

Great resource for those wanting to know about SQL performance tuning. Will keep this book as a reference on my desk.