SQL Server DMVs in Action

Acknowledgements

I’d like to start off by thanking the whole Manning team, in particular Katharine Osborne, Michael Stephens, Marjan Bace, Mary Piergies, Janet Vail, Linda Recktenwald, Katie Tennant, and Dennis Dalinnik. Thank you, Katharine, for your professionalism and steering me in the right direction, and thank you Michael and Marjan for believing the subject of DMVs could make an important contribution to improving SQL performance. I’m indebted to the Manning production team, Mary, Janet, Linda, Katie, and Dennis, for guiding me through the production process and helping make this a better book.

I’d like to express my thanks to Elvira Chierkoet, for checking and reading every sentence and helping ensure my ideas were sensible.

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