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SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242620
Pages 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Benjamin Nevarez Benjamin Nevarez
Profile icon Benjamin Nevarez

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: An Introduction to Query Tuning and Optimization Chapter 2: Troubleshooting Queries Chapter 3: The Query Optimizer Chapter 4: The Execution Engine Chapter 5: Working with Indexes Chapter 6: Understanding Statistics Chapter 7: In-Memory OLTP Chapter 8: Understanding Plan Caching Chapter 9: The Query Store Chapter 10: Intelligent Query Processing Chapter 11: An Introduction to Data Warehouses Chapter 12: Understanding Query Hints Other Books You May Enjoy

Parallelism

SQL Server can use parallelism to help execute some expensive queries faster by using several processors simultaneously. However, even when a query might get better performance by using parallel plans, it could still use more resources than a similar serial plan.

For the query optimizer to consider parallel plans, the SQL Server installation must have access to at least two processors or cores or a hyper-threaded configuration. In addition, both the affinity mask and the maximum degree of parallelism advanced configuration options must allow the use of at least two processors, which they do by default. Finally, as explained later in this section, SQL Server will only consider parallelism for serial queries whose cost exceeds the configured cost threshold for parallelism, where the default value is 5.

The affinity mask configuration option specifies which processors are eligible to run SQL Server threads, and the default value of 0 means that all the processors can...

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