Grant Fritchey

This book is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indexes, and how to best use them. The book begins in the shallow waters with explanations of the types of indexes and how they are stored in databases. Moving deeper into the topic, and further into the book, you will look at the statistics that are accumulated both by indexes and on indexes. You’ll better understand what indexes are doing in the database and what can be done to mitigate and improve… Show more

This book is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indexes, and how to best use them. The book begins in the shallow waters with explanations of the types of indexes and how they are stored in databases. Moving deeper into the topic, and further into the book, you will look at the statistics that are accumulated both by indexes and on indexes. You’ll better understand what indexes are doing in the database and what can be done to mitigate and improve their effect on performance. The final destination is a guided tour through a number of real life scenarios showing approaches you can take to investigate, mitigate, and improve the performance of your database.

Defines the types of indexes and their implementation options
Provides use cases and common patterns in applying indexing
Describes and explain the index metadata and statistics
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This release of SQL Server Query Performance tuning is fundamentally restructured making it an all new book on query tuning. It's still all about getting you the solutions you need in order to address your query performance problems. From identifying where the performance issue lies, to various methods to solve it, SQL Server Query Performance tuning is the must-have book for SQL Server data professionals of all types.

This ebook has 45 easy tips to improve the performance of your indexes and T-SQL queries, and hunt down problems within ORM tools and database design.

Expert SQL Server Practices 2012 Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Microsoft’s flagship database system.

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Expert SQL Server Practices 2012 Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Microsoft’s flagship database system.

Each chapter is a deep-dive into a specific problem, technology, or feature set. Each author has chosen their topic out of the strong belief that what they share can make a positive difference in your ability to be successful in your job and get home in time for dinner with your family. Don’t let your database manage you! Instead let the Expert SQL Server Practices author team show you how to take control, plan for and monitor performance, troubleshoot effectively when things go wrong, and be in control of your SQL Server environment.

•Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
•Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
•Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability
•Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times

What you’ll learn
•Migrate to the new Extended Events framework for troubleshooting performance problems
•Automate the tracking of key performance indicators such as available disk space, cpu utilization, index fragmentation, and more
•Design performance into your database and its applications from the very beginning
•Manage staged releases from development to test through to production
•Diagnose resource and performance problems via dynamic management views
•Analyze I/O patterns and plan reliably to obtain the performance you need
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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.

Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration provides the essential skills and knowledge needed to begin a successful career as an SQL Server database administrator. It’s an ideal book for those new to database administration, as well for those moving to SQL Server from other database brands such as Oracle and IBM DB2

Discussion panel between various SQL professionals, discussing embarrassing mistakes that we've all made, and lessons learned from those mistakes.

A collection of short articles on SQL Server by various MVP authors. All proceeds of this book go to charity.

This book shows how to use of mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully develop database applications in a team environment, and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.

Execution plans show you what's going on behind the scenes in SQL Server. They can provide you with a wealth of information on how your queries are being executed by SQL Server, including: • Which indexes are being used, and where no indexes are being used at all. • How the data is being retrieved, and joined, from the tables defi ned in your query. • How aggregations in GROUP BY queries are put together. • The anticipated load and the estimated cost that all these operations place upon the… Show more

Execution plans show you what's going on behind the scenes in SQL Server. They can provide you with a wealth of information on how your queries are being executed by SQL Server, including: • Which indexes are being used, and where no indexes are being used at all. • How the data is being retrieved, and joined, from the tables defi ned in your query. • How aggregations in GROUP BY queries are put together. • The anticipated load and the estimated cost that all these operations place upon the system. Grant Fritchey's book is the only in-depth look at how to improve your SQL query performance through careful design of execution plans. Show less