SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

My original review:The book has many issues related to the printing. For instance, page 1 chapter 1:- Identifyingp roblematicS QLq ueries...- Evaluatingt hee ffectiveness of the current indexes- Avoidingb ookmarkl ookups- Evaluatingt hee ffectiveness of the current statistics- Analyzinga ndr esolvingf ragmentation- Optimizinge xectutionp lanc achingand so on.This goes through the whole book.I am returning it to Amazon in hopes to exchange it for a correctly printed book. Will have to see if I get a good one.9/8/2012 Update:After talking with the author and publisher via e-mail, they did make things right and helped me get a non-scrambled book.Way to stand behind your product!Anyhow, I just made it through the book and it is a worthy investment. I tend to accumulate a ton of tech books that, frankly, don't really help. Either they are too shallow in their coverage of topics or they are for the beginner.After reading the non-scrambled text, I found there were many things that will help me on a daily basis.Thanks again for standing behind your book and thanks for the additional knowledge to help me do my job!

I'm a C++/C# guy and I've always been wanting to attack the SQL DB area but there was no time for it. Finally I had to make time and learn this area and I can say this book did the job fairly well for me. There's a bit of fluffy content that I would have taken out and that's why I rated the book 4 stars instead of 5.

This is an excellent book written in an easy to read style by a knowledgeable author. I use this book (and issue copies to my students) when teaching Microsoft's 10775 course on SQL Server 2012 administration; it lets me turn the course into a more substantial PTO (performance tuning and optimization) class, which is the topic that brings most folks into the 10775 class to begin with.

Good techniques to tune queries and tune the db. Lots of examples and details. Very good advice on this complicated topic. I would highly recommend it.

The book is very good in describing the main performance topics from every aspect and gradually builds on each chapter. I have not finished reading it yet, but I am on 70% and I have already managed to detect, analyze and troubleshoot some slow performing queries. I would recommend the book to anyone.

Yes, I just received this book as well and it is unreadable with the number of typesetting errors!!! I have never seen a book come out with such poor quality control. This is an instant return, but the publisher never should have shipped the book in the first place. I would give this 0 stars if possible.

Great book to pick up on managing/troubleshooting SQL Server (as well as performance). I loved all the examples - very helpful!

This was a worthwhile read. Its full of important information about best practices which are absolutely crucial on Azure SQL Database.

The printing quality is bad, in general the book is good but I think it would be accomplish with other resources.