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Never-Before-Published Insiders’ Information for Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005.
This is the definitive guide to troubleshooting the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine, direct from the people who know it most intimately: the people who wrote it, designed it, and support it. SQL Server expert Ken Henderson, author of the best-selling Guru’s Guides to SQL Server, has assembled a “dream team” of SQL Server developers and support engineers to provide in-depth troubleshooting and diagnostic information that has never been documented before: information that would be impossible to get without access to Microsoft’s own source code.
From caching to clustering, query processing to Service Broker, this book will help you address even the toughest problems with database engine operations. Each chapter begins with a brief architectural overview of a key SQL Server component, then drills down into the most common problems users encounter, offering specific guidance on investigating and resolving them. You’ll find comprehensive, in-depth chapters on
• Waiting and blocking
• Data corruption and recovery
• Memory
• Procedure cache issues
• Query processing
• Server crashes and other critical failures
• Service Broker
• SQLOS and scheduling
• tempdb
• Clustering
This is the indispensable resource for everyone who must keep SQL Server running smoothly: DBAs, database application developers, API programmers, and Web developers alike.
Contents
About the Authors ix
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Waiting and Blocking Issues 1
2 Data Corruption and Recovery Issues 47
3 Memory Issues 137
4 Procedure Cache Issues 183
5 Query Processor Issues 225
6 Server Crashes and Other Critical Failures 273
7 Service Broker Issues 331
8 SQLOS and Scheduling Issues 369
9 Tempdb Issues 411
10 Clustering Issues 425
The Aging Champion 441
Index 445
Preface
Chapter 1 Waiting and Blocking Issues
Chapter 2 Data Corruption and Recovery Issues
Chapter 3 Memory Issues
Chapter 4 Procedure Cache Issues
Chapter 5 Query Processor Issues
Chapter 6 Server Crashes and Other Critical Failures
Chapter 7 Service Broker Issues
Chapter 8 SQLOS and Scheduling Issues
Chapter 9 Tempdb Issues
Chapter 10 Clustering Issues
Index
Anonymous
Posted Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2012
Of all the SQL Server how-to/troubleshooting manuals out there, this is one of the best. The title says it all...
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Posted Sun Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2007
This is a decent book. There is a lot of good info in it. I have read it cover-2-cover and really like it. I found a couple problems with it, tho. One is: dispite Ken Henderson's name being on the cover he did not actually write the book. He is just the editor. I am a long-time fan of his and was really looking forward to this book since the updated Guru guide books are not avail. yet. If you buy this book expecting Ken's excellent writing and teaching you will be disappointed. It is just not there. The actual authors seem like beginners by comparison. The only part Ken wrote was a great story at the end of the book. I always look forward to these stories but I wish he had written more of the book. I think they should have made this more clear on the book cover. When I saw Ken's name I thought he wrote the book. Only after I opened it and flipped through it did I learn the truth. The second problem is some of the chapters are too long. They could have used some editing. The server corruption chapter is a great example. It is extremely dull to begin with then keeps on repeating itself. It was just to long. I found myself falling to sleep while I read it-and this was in the middle of the day!! But this is a good book and one worth buying. But if you are waiting on a new 'Ken Henderson' book keep waiting. Hopefully the updated Guru guides will be out soon.
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Posted Thu Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2007
As the editor Henderson says in his Preface, this book is perhaps a little more specialised than his 'Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture'. That book was generally applicable to anyone coding SQL Server, while the current book is about what troubles might occur. Where these are expected [hopefully] to be fairly infrequent. The chapters are written by different contributors and touch on key aspects of the database. Each chapter can be read in isolation of the others. Of these, the chapter on server crashes and other critical failures might be the most important to some readers. Where maybe it is not so much the efficiency of how your SQL Server operates, but that it must run continuously. The chapter describes how an error log is made, and how to read its contents. As you'd expect, each entry is timestamped. You are walked through the standard startup sequence. Fairly intricate, reflecting the complexity of SQL Server itself. Multiple threads are associated with a normal run, and several databases are read - for the system and for the users. The chapter also warns you to only use the SQL Configuration Manager in order to change the parameters of the SQL services. As contrasted to using an alternative method which can cause errors. Here it seems implicitly that Microsoft erred in permitting that alternative to be even feasible. This warning should not be needed.
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Never-Before-Published Insiders’ Information for Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005.
This is the definitive guide to troubleshooting the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine, direct from the people who know it most intimately: the people who wrote it, designed it, and support it. SQL Server expert Ken Henderson, author of the best-selling Guru’s Guides to SQL Server, has assembled a “dream team” of SQL Server developers and support engineers to provide in-depth troubleshooting...