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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

Expert, architectural insigths for optimizing enterprise database

Dig into the internals of tuning and optimization features in SQL Server 2005 - with insights from leading SQL Server experts. This in-depth guide delivers best practices, pragmatic advice, and code samples to help you enable efficient, effective queries - and optimize database performance.

Discover how to:

• Create a baseline and monitor workload by using System Monitor and DMVs
• Design, manipulate, and manage traces to isolate database performance issues
• Audit user activity by using built-in default, black box, and Common Criteria traces
• Analyze query execution using scans and seeks, joins, aggregations, unions, and parallelism
• Generate efficient and cost-effective queries using cached plans or new plans
• Detect and resolve locking, blocking, and deadlocking concurrency issues
• Use best practices to diagnose and troubleshoot response time, throughput, and scalability issues

Includes Transact-SQL code samples and on the Web

About the Author Kalen Delaney and Lubor Kollar:

Kalen Delaney has been working with Microsoft SQL Server for over 21 years, and she provides advanced SQL Server training to clients around the world. She has been a SQL Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1992 and has been writing about SQL Server almost as long. Kalen has spoken at dozens of technical conferences, including every PASS Community Summit held in the United States since the organization´s founding in 1999. Kalen is a partner and Director of Training for SQL Tuners (www.sqltuners.net), a SQL Server tuning and managed services company based in the northwestern United States.

Kalen is a contributing editor and columnist for SQL Server Magazine and the author or co-author of several Microsoft Press books on SQL Server, including Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine, and Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization.

Lubor Kollar is the group program manager for SQL Server at Microsoft. His team led the development of key enhancements to the relational engine and T-SQL query capabilities in SQL Server 2008.