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Free eBook: Troubleshooting SQL Server – A Guide for the Accidental DBA

Dal portale Red-Gate è possibile scaricare gratuitamente l’eBook: Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA degli autori Jonathan Kehayias e Ted Krueger.

Il libro tratta come diagnosticare e risolvere i problemi, più comuni, legati alle performance di SQL Server, di seguito la review pubblicata da Red-Gate.

Editorial Review

We spend much of our working life helping solve SQL Server-related performance problems, hands-on, during consulting, or on online forums. We’ve seen a few weird-and-wonderful issues but, mainly, it’s the same problems and misconceptions time-and-again. This is our attempt to describe, diagnose, and solve the most common problems with SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2.

First, we explain a basic approach to troubleshooting, the essential tools, and how rare it is that a problem can be diagnosed by looking at a single data point. The art of troubleshooting SQL Server is the art of first gathering various pieces of information and then assembling the "puzzle" to reveal a complete picture of what is going on inside a server, and so the root of the problem. Next, we explore the areas in which problems arise with alarming regularity:

  • High Disk I/O – RAID misconfiguration, inadequate I/O throughput, poor workload distribution, SAN issues, disk partition misalignment and more
  • High CPU usage – insufficient memory, poorly written queries, inadequate indexing, inappropriate configuration option settings, and so on
  • Memory mismanagement – the advent of 64-bit SQL Server removes the memory allocation "shackles" placed on its 32-bit predecessors, but issues arising from incorrect memory configuration are still common
  • Missing indexes – arguably the number one cause of wasteful resource usage in SQL Server
  • Blocking – caused mainly by poorly designed databases that lack proper keys and indexing, and applications that apply needlessly restrictive transaction isolation levels
  • Deadlocking – covering the Bookmark Lookup deadlock, the Serializable Range Scan deadlock, the Cascading Constraint deadlock and more
  • Full transaction logs – lack of log backups, hefty index maintenance operations, long running transaction, problems with replication and mirroring environments, and more.
  • Accidentally-lost data – "oops, wrong database!" Let’s hope you’ve got backups.

In each case, the book describes the most common problems, why they occur, and how they can be diagnosed using tools such as the Performance Monitor, Dynamic Management Views, server-side tracing, and more. Finally, it provides practical solutions for removing root causes, rather than "papering over the cracks".

The steps and techniques described are ones we use day-to-day to troubleshoot real SQL Server performance problems. With them, we hope you can solve performance problems quickly and accurately, and tame your unruly SQL Servers.

Buona lettura!

Chi è Sergio Govoni

Sergio Govoni è laureato in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche. Da oltre 16 anni lavora presso una software house che produce un noto sistema ERP, distribuito a livello nazionale ed internazionale, multi azienda client/server su piattaforma Win32. Attualmente si occupa di progettazione e analisi funzionale, coordina un team di sviluppo ed è responsabile tecnico di prodotto. Lavora con SQL Server dalla versione 7.0 e si è occupato d'implementazione e manutenzione di database relazionali in ambito gestionale, ottimizzazione delle prestazioni e problem solving. Nello staff di UGISS si dedica alla formazione e alla divulgazione in ambito SQL Server e tecnologie a esso collegate, scrivendo articoli e partecipando come speaker ai workshop e alle iniziative del primo e più importante User Group Italiano sulla tecnologia SQL Server. Ha conseguito la certificazione MCP, MCTS SQL Server. Per il suo contributo nelle comunità tecniche e per la condivisione della propria esperienza con altri, dal 2010 riceve il riconoscimento SQL Server MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional). Nel corso dell'anno 2011 ha contribuito alla scrittura del libro SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2 (http://www.manning.com/delaney/).

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