Professional SQL Server 2005
Performance Tuning (Programmer to
Programmer) by Arindam Sen
Professional Sql Server 2005 Performance Tuning From Wrox Rocks!
Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource
approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a
methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. The
book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something
is wrong and you’ll then learn how to identify and remove the problems that
are causing poor performance. You’ll discover preventive measures you
can take to try to avoid a performance problem entirely and you’ll learn
how to achieve better performance.
Personal Review: Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance
Tuning (Programmer to Programmer) by Arindam Sen
From my experience with SQL Server and Oracle for the last 15 years of
my IT experience, Database Performance tuning is more of an art and
science (even though the book says it is more of a science). As SQL
Server transformed into different versions, the information to gather
performance related data matrix improved. Hence, the quest for ways to
get information on how to troubleshoot performance problems in SQL
Server grew.
I have referred many books on SQL Server Performance Tuning, but most
of the books I have referred provided generic information and go on
describing mundane performance tuning methods such as SQL Profiler,
Execution Plan and Performance Logs without any examples to refer or try
with. I did not find many books that deal with performance tuning concepts
from ground up. This book defines the performance tuning concepts from
ground up and also describes the "how and what" data point to gather,
measure and analyze to troubleshoot the performance problems.

Book starts with good introduction to the basic concepts of Performance
Tuning in a methodical approach. It defines how to understand a problem
statement, how to go about solving those problems and how to prevent it
from occurring. The book goes about all facets of performance tuning such
as Server and database tuning, SQL tuning, creating a workload for
creating a performance benchmark, system tuning for memory, processor
and storage.
I liked the chapters dealing with SQL Server Wait types, Tuning Indexes,
Tuning Schema and Capturing, Measuring and Replying workloads.
Like any other book, it has some shortcomings too. For instance there are
some typos and which can easily be caught if you understand the subject
in the chapter.
So I will suggest if you are an experience DBA or a DBA who wants to get
into Performance Tuning (a good line to be in!!), please add this book to
your cart!!!!(no.. I was not paid to write this!!)
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