The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook

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, 1555581803
• Targets SQL Server 2000
• Helps IT professionals run SQL Server more powerfully and efficiently and optimize it for e-commerce and knowledge management

SQL Server administrators, programmers and system designers

Introducing Performance Tuning and Physical Database Design
SQL Server Storage Structures
Indexing
The Query Optimizer
SQL Server and Windows NT
Transactions and Locking
Monitoring Performance
A Performance Tuning Checklist