Chapter 48. Query performance and disk I/O counters
Linchi Shea
SQL Server provides an excellent set of tools for troubleshooting query performance problems. At the top of the list, you have tools for capturing and analyzing query plans, tools for checking whether statistics are up to date or an index is useful, tools for capturing the time and resource cost of processing a query, and tools to help optimize SQL queries.
What you do not typically find in the toolset recommended for troubleshooting SQL Server query performance problems are the disk I/O performance counters. This is understandable because the disk I/O counters are the statistics at the operating system drive level. Although they can help you determine whether your disk subsystem ...
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