The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook

by England

• ISBN13: 9781555582418
• ISBN10: 1555582419
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-13
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Learn from a SQL Server performance authority how to make your database run at lightning speed. Ken England's SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook is recognized by SQL Server administrators as the indispensable guide to tuning and optimization. Now he's revised the book for Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000, the most advanced and powerful version yet of SQL Server, which takes full advantage of Windows 2000's new processing capabilities. The book details the factors that determine database performance and offers readers tools, techniques and best practices they can use to tweak and tune SQL Server's configuration and operation. Readers will learn how to enhance performance through good physical design and effective internal storage structures. The book spells out methods for creating efficient indexes and techniques for tuning SQL Server's new query optimizer. A new edition of the authoritative and bestselling guide, SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook, 1555581803Targets SQL Server 2000Helps IT professionals run SQL Server more powerfully and efficiently and optimize it for e-commerce and knowledge management

Author Biography

Ken England is President and Founder of Database Technologies

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introducing Performance Tuning and Physical Database Design	1	(10)
What is performance tuning?	1	(2)
The physical database design process	3	(7)
Where to next?	10	(1)
SQL Server Storage Structures	11	(40)
Introduction	11	(1)
Databases and files	11	(3)
Creating databases	14	(5)
Increasing the size of a database	19	(2)
Decreasing the size of a database	21	(5)
Modifying filegroup properties	26	(1)
Setting database options	27	(3)
Displaying information about databases	30	(2)
System tables used in database configuration	32	(3)
Units of storage	35	(2)
Database pages	37	(5)
Looking into database pages	42	(3)
Pages for space management	45	(4)
The BankingDB database	49	(2)
Indexing	51	(68)
Introduction	51	(1)
Data retrieval with no indexes	51	(1)
Clustered indexes	52	(5)
Nonclustered indexes	57	(2)
The role of indexes in insertion and deletion	59	(10)
A note about updates	69	(1)
So how do you create indexes?	70	(14)
Dropping and renaming indexes	84	(1)
Displaying information about indexes	84	(11)
Creating indexes on views	95	(2)
Creating indexes with computed columns	97	(1)
Using indexes to retrieve data	98	(12)
Choosing indexes	110	(9)
The Query Optimizer	119	(108)
Introduction	119	(1)
When is the query optimized?	120	(1)
Query optimization	121	(106)
SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000	227	(48)
SQL Server 2000 and CPU	227	(16)
SQL Server 2000 and memory	243	(14)
SQL Server 2000 and disk I/O	257	(18)
Transactions and Locking	275	(54)
Introduction	275	(1)
Why a locking protocol?	276	(2)
The SQL server locking protocol	278	(36)
SQL Server locking in action	314	(5)
Uncommitted data, repeatable reads, phantoms, and more	319	(8)
Application resource locks	327	(1)
A Summary of lock compatibility	327	(2)
Monitoring Performance	329	(32)
Introduction	329	(1)
System stored procedures	329	(2)
System monitor, performance logs, and alerts	331	(4)
The SQL Profiler	335	(14)
Index Tuning wizard	349	(9)
Query analyzer	358	(3)
A Performance Tuning Checklist	361	(10)
System resource use	361	(1)
Choosing efficient indexes	362	(2)
Helping the Query Optimizer	364	(1)
Avoiding lock contention	364	(3)
Database integrity	367	(1)
Database administration activities	367	(1)
Archiving data	368	(1)
Read only report databases	368	(1)
Denormalization	369	(2)
Bibliography	371	(2)
Index	373	(18)
Database Technologies	391