The document discusses how to prevent application issues from negatively impacting database performance, emphasizing the importance of diagnosing common problems. It highlights the need for performance design and tuning efforts and suggests using tools for identifying issues in application code and SQL. The author provides resources for further learning and hands-on labs to try the suggested tools.

1. Stop your application killing
database performance
Ben Emmett
Redgate Software
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2. Get in touch
www.simple-talk.com/blogs
ben.emmett@red-gate.com
@bcemmett
Ben Emmett
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3. Goals
Understand common application-side problems
Learn how to discover and diagnose issues
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4. Where to tune?
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability, Figure 14.1: Focus for performance design and tuning efforts.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647793.aspx
Performancegains
Windows OS SQL Server Hardware Database Application
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8. Demo
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9. Wrap up
Good developers’ code can run bad SQL
To identify problems you have to be looking
Tools can do the looking for you!
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10. Want to try the tools you’ve just seen?
Head to the Hands-on Labs
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11. www.simple-talk.com/blogs
ben.emmett@red-gate.com
@bcemmett
github.com/bcemmett/TigerTreeFoods
Questions
Get the code!
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