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SQL Server Performance Killers | SQL Server 2012

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2012

SQL Server Performance Killers Let’s now consider the major problem areas that can degrade SQL Server performance. By being aware of the main performance killers in SQL Server in advance, you will be able to focus your tuning efforts on the likely causes. Once you have optimized the hardware, operating system, and SQL Server settings, ...

SQL Performance Baseline | SQL Server 2012

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2012

Performance Baseline One of the main objectives of performance analysis is to understand the underlying level of system use or pressure on different hardware and software subsystems. This knowledge helps you in the following ways: Allows you to analyze resource bottlenecks. Enables you to troubleshoot by comparing system utilization patterns with a preestablished baseline. Assists ...

Performance vs. Price | SQL Server 2012

Jul

2012

Performance vs. Price One of the points I touched on earlier is that to gain increasingly small performance increments, you need to spend increasingly large amounts of time and money. Therefore, to ensure the best return on your investment, you should be very objective while optimizing performance. Always consider the following two aspects: What is ...

The Performance Tuning Process | SQL Server 2012

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2012

The Performance Tuning Process The performance tuning process consists of identifying performance bottlenecks, prioritizing the issues, troubleshooting their causes, applying different resolutions, and quantifying performance improvements—and then repeating the whole process again and again. It is necessary to be a little creative, since most of the time there is no one silver bullet to improve ...

SQL Query Performance Tuning | SQL Server 2012

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2012

SQL Query Performance Tuning Query performance tuning remains an important part of today’s database applications. Yes, hardware performance is constantly improving. Upgrades to SQL Server—especially to the optimizer, which helps determine how a query is executed, and the query engine, which executes the query—lead to better performance all on their own. Many systems are moving ...

How to Create Well-Formed XML with Genx | XML Tricks

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Trick 100 Create Well-Formed XML with Genx If you prefer the C language, Genx provides a fast, efficient C library for generating well-formed and canonical XML. On top of that, it’s well documented and a real pleasure to use. Genx (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/02/20/GenxStatus) is an easy-to-use C library for generating well-formed XML output. In addition to its ...

How to Generate Code from XML | XML Tricks

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Trick 99 Generate Code from XML This Trick will demonstrate one tool that can generate code from either XML documents or a schema. Relaxer (http://www.relaxer.org) is a free Java tool that, among many other things, can generate Java code from XML documents, RELAX NG schemas (http://www.relaxng.org), or Relax Core schemas (http://www.xml.gr.jp/relax/). 7.10.1 Using Relaxer to ...

How to Process XML with C# | XML Tricks

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2012

Trick 98 Process XML with C# Even if you aren’t a C# programmer, you can get up to speed on processing XML with C# in short order with this Trick. C# is an object-oriented programming language that comes as part of Microsoft’s .NET framework (http://www.microsoft.com/net/), which was introduced in 2000. C# has taken a lot ...

How to Processing XML with SAX | XML Tricks

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Trick 97 Processing XML with SAX SAX is the de facto standard XML parser interface for Java. You learn how to use it here with a simple SAX application written in Java. The Simple API for XML (SAX) is a streaming, event-based API for XML (http://www.saxproject.org). It was (and continues to be) developed by members ...

How to Inspect and Edit XML Documents with the Document Object Model

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Trick 96 Inspect and Edit XML Documents with the Document Object Model The W3C Document Object Model was an early effort to gain fine-grained control over a document in memory. This Trick introduces you to how DOM works. The Document Object Model or DOM (http://www.w3.org/DOM/) is a W3C-specified recommendation set that provides facilities to “allow ...