Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can use the command line interface to tune SQL queries and how you can use SQL Server Profiler to capture the workload for tuning with Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
2015-03-31
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There are different techniques to optimize the performance of SQL Server queries but wouldn’t it be great if we had some recommendations before we started planning or optimizing queries so that we didn’t have to start from the scratch every time? This is where you can use the Database Engine Tuning Advisor utility to get recommendations based on your workload.
2015-03-05
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Microsoft Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) is a database performance tuning utility designed to analyze your SQL Server database and suggest actions to be taken in order for taking your query performance to the next level.
2013-04-09
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