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CHAPTER 18 Tuning for Peak Load

By Ben DeBow

Today is historically the busiest day of the year for your online shopping business. At 11 AM, the system is starting to show signs of strain and load that exceeds that of the previous year. Customers are having problems completing their orders. Some fail, others are just slow. The operations center calls you in to see what’s going on with SQL Server, and you observe that processes are starting to queue up because of large blocking chains, which ultimately affects the checkout process. You didn’t code the application, but your job as a database administrator (DBA) is to fix the problem. As this event ...

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