SQL Server 2019 Administration Inside Out

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Chapter 14Performance tuning SQL Server

Understanding isolation levels and concurrency

Understanding durability settings for performance

Understanding how SQL Server executes your query

Understanding advanced engine features for tuning queries

In this chapter, we review the database concepts and objects most associated with tuning the performance of queries and coded objects within Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL DB. We will not be looking at performance tuning queries that make use of the PolyBase feature, as tuning these queries will go beyond tuning SQL Server into tuning the external systems that they access.

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