Introduction

Performance is a hot issue on a lot of database implementations. Many businesses run into performance-related issues when their databases experience more load or grow larger in size. There are many methods available for increasing the performance of your SQL Server(s) on all types of levels. Many of these performance-optimization methods we consider best-practice, like running index maintenance to make sure fragmented indexes don’t slow down your queries, or updating statistics so the SQL Server Database Engine has the correct information to generate a good execution plan. Besides these database maintenance methods, you can also choose to dive a little bit deeper into specific query performance troubleshooting, optimizing queries ...

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