Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting

621 Pages·2010·14.588 MB·English

by  Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Brent Ozar, James Rowland-Jones, Jonathan Kehayias, Cindy Gross, Steven Wort

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PROFESSIONAL
SQL SERVER® 2008 INTERNALS
AND TROUBLESHOOTING
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
CHAPTER 1 SQL Server Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CHAPTER 2 Understanding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
CHAPTER 3 SQL Server Waits and Extended Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 4 Working with Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
CHAPTER 5 CPU and Query Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
CHAPTER 6 Locking and Latches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
CHAPTER 7 Knowing Tempdb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
CHAPTER 8 Defi ning Your Approach To Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
CHAPTER 9 Viewing Server Performance with PerfMon and the PAL Tool . . . . . .329
CHAPTER 10 Tracing SQL Server with SQL Trace and Profi ler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .369
CHAPTER 11 Consolidating Data Collection with SQLDiag and the
PerfStats Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
CHAPTER 12 Introducing RML Utilities for Stress Testing and Trace
File Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .459
CHAPTER 13 Bringing It All Together with SQL Nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
CHAPTER 14 Using Management Studio Reports and the Performance
Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .505
CHAPTER 15 Using SQL Server Management Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .539
CHAPTER 16 Shortcuts to Effi cient Data Collection and Quick Analysis . . . . Wrox.com
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
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PROFESSIONAL
SQL Server® 2008 Internals
and Troubleshooting
Christian Bolton
Justin Langford
Brent Ozar
James Rowland-Jones
Jonathan Kehayias
Cindy Gross
Steven Wort
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For Gemma, with all my love and thanks
—Christian Bolton
This is dedicated to Erika, who has been dedicated
to me despite my long working hours. I love you
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