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Gail Shaw, famous for her forum contributions under the pen name 'gilamonster', is from Johannesburg Gauteng and works as a database consultant in performance tuning and database optimisation. Before moving to consulting she worked at a large South African investment bank and was responsible for the performance of the major systems there.
Finding the causes of poor performance in SQL Server, Part 2
by Gail Shaw | 03 April 2009 |  31 comments |
In the first part of this series of articles, Gail showed how to find the procedures that contributed most to performance problems. In this final part, she shows how to use query statistics to pinpoint the queries that are causing the biggest problems, and then... Read more...
Finding the Causes of Poor Performance in SQL Server, Part 1
by Gail Shaw | 09 March 2009 |  42 comments |
To tackle performance problems with applications, you first find the queries that constitute a typical workload, using SQL Profiler: Then, from the trace, you find the queries or stored procedures that are having the most impact. After that, it is down to examining... Read more...
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