SQLAuthority News – Two Whitepapers on Performance Tuning and Enhancements

The best part of being in the technology domain is that I get a lot of opportunity to talk and write at different places. I travel quite a bit in lengths to deliver some of my learnings with audiences around the world. These learnings and writings as in this blog have influenced and encouraged a number of others to also jump into the blogging or writing habit. I cherish and love doing these outside of this site too. Recently, I wrote a couple of whitepapers and thought it was worth a call here over this blog too. What are these whitepapers all about?

Beginning Performance Tuning

If you want to learn a new competency, where would you start? One cannot wake up on a warm sunny day and start driving on their own. There is a process, steps and most importantly a learning part from an expert to get them started. And over a period of time this practice will make them expert too. The analogy hold good even here. There is no silver bullet to performance tuning and there is no “it depends” to performance tuning.

The facts and the process to learn is what gets discussed in this whitepaper. The best person to start performance testing are the developers and DBAs of the application itself. They exactly know the architecture, workload, dependencies and how access happens in the system. In this whitepaper I talk about this fundamental process first and then delve into some of the simplest techniques I have used for ages to do performance testing.

You can read the Whitepaper: Beginning Performance Tuning with SQL Server 2014 here.

Performance Enhancements with SQL Server 2014

Second in series that I wrote was around Performance Enhancements with SQL Server 2014. The need to upgrade to the latest stack always has its own challenges and administrators are constantly looking at the need to understand the new features so that it can help them at work. This constant struggle and need to learn, implement and troubleshoot the latest and greatest is a challenge in itself.

In this whitepaper, I take my random 4 picks of performance enhancements with SQL Server 2014 which I personally felt are worth a mention. Some of them include ColumnStore Index, Managed Lock Priority, Buffer Pool Extensions and more. I take an introduction to each of these enhancements and what these features bring to the table for an administrator / developer. In reality, each of these topics warrant a whole whitepaper but I am sure the future blogs will contain some of these for sure. Stay tuned on that.

You can read the Whitepaper: Performance Enhancements made with SQL Server 2014 here.

I am sure you will enjoy these whitepapers and the best part is they are absolutely FREE. So do download them and let me know your thoughts. Would love to incorporate some of them in my future writing on this blog or papers I write.

Reference: Pinal Dave )