Product Description

Maximize the performance of your existing SQL 7.0/2000 applications -- and optimize your future applications right from the start! This is the first book to provide step-by-step instructions for optimizing any SQL Server 7.x application -- and comprehensive insight into Microsoft SQL Server 2000's enhanced server architecture and powerful new features. Jenney Lynne Fields helps SQL Server 2000 DBAs and developers understand the impact of Microsoft's latest architectural changes on their existing applications. She reviews key up-front performance-related decisions, including hardware selection and indexing; and covers Microsoft's key performance-related tools, including SQL Server Profiler, Graphic Showplan, and the Index Tuning Wizard. Finally, Fields offers a detailed, structured approach to diagnosing and resolving performance problems. The book includes extensive examples and recommendations, including techniques for automating monitoring and notification when performance falls below specific thresholds.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3090138 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

From the Back Cover

• The step-by-step, up-to-the-minute guide to maximizing SQL Server performance and scalability!
• Plan SQL Server 2000/7 applications for maximum performance
• Make the most of Microsoft's SQL Server Profiler, Graphic Showplan, and Index Tuning Wizard
• Automate performance monitoring and notification
• CD-ROM: Extensive library of tuning tools, scripts, and practice resources!

Foreword by Andrew Scoppa, UCI Corporation

• A detailed, structured approach to identifying SQL Server performance bottlenecks—and resolving them
• Covers every component that impacts SQL Server performance: software and hardware
• Scalable, high-availability solutions for enterprise applications
• SQL Server 2000's enhanced architecture—and how it affects existing applications
• Techniques for automating performance monitoring and notification
• Extensive real-world scenarios and practical recommendations

Maximize the performance of all your SQL Server 2000/7.0 applications!

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Optimization Guide delivers all the hands-on techniques and guidance you need to optimize any SQL Server 2000/7.0 application—no matter how large or business-critical! You'll learn a proven step-by-step methodology for tracking down SQL Server application bottlenecks and scalability problems—and resolving them.

Jenney Lynne Fields covers every aspect of optimizing both transaction processing and decision support applications. Discover how to install and configure SQL Server for maximum performance; create optimal indexes for each type of query; and write queries that take full advantage of the Query Optimizer.

Fields helps you identify opportunities for denormalizing logical database design to enhance performance; shows how to minimize contention and deadlock; and demonstrates how to work with stored procedures far more effectively. She also also presents in-depth guides to every key Microsoft database performance management tool, including the SQL Server Profiler, Graphic Showplan, and the Index Tuning Wizard.

Whatever your applications, whatever your role, this book will help you squeeze more performance and scalability out of the SQL Server databases you depend upon.

About the CD-ROM

The accompanying CD-ROM contains an extensive library of practice optimization sessions, training materials, scenarios, scripts, and other resources for maximizing the performance of SQL Server 2000 and 7.0.

"A great resource! We can use this in our database practice."

— Dick Tarulli, vice president, Business Development and Marketing, Articulent Inc.

About the Author

JENNEY LYNNE FIELDS is President and Senior Consultant for Sutton Technology Group, Inc., Sutton, MA. She holds MCSE, MCT, and Novell CNE certification.

UCI Corporation has been training technical IT professionals since 1984. UCI provides training services, curriculum development, and consulting services to programmers, and system support engineers. UCI expertise includes Internet, Programming, and System technologies. Headquarters are in Massachusetts: 800-884-1772, or visit their web page at http://www.unicorp.com