A new era of SQL Server is here and this latest edition of Grant Fritchey’s best-selling dive
into SQL Server query performance can ensure your queries keep up. The fundamentals are still
here: You’ll learn how statistics and indexes impact performance how to identify poorly
performing queries and how to discover effective solutions. But this new edition also includes
advanced features unique to SQL Server 2025 such as AI integration for automatic tuning
insights on using extended events automatic execution plan correction and more. It’s a
must-have resource designed to empower you to troubleshoot slow-performing queries and make
them run faster than ever. The book is a treasure trove of instruction insight and advice.
As you dive in you’ll encounter key fundamentals from statistics and data distribution to
cardinality and parameter sniffing and learn to analyze and design your indexes and queries
using best practices that prevent performance problems before they occur. You’ll also explore
advanced features like Query Store for managing and controlling execution plans automated
performance tuning and memory-optimized OLTP tables and procedures—and learn how SQL Server
2025 makes it all more powerful and automatable than ever. What You Will Learn Use Query
Store to understand and easily change query performance Recognize and eliminate bottlenecks
leading to slow performance Tune queries whether on-premises in containers or on cloud
platform providers Implement best practices in T-SQL to minimize performance risk Design in
the performance that you need through careful query and index design Understand how built-in
automatic tuning can assist your performance enhancement efforts Protect query performance
during upgrades to the newer versions of SQL Server Who This Book Is For Developers and
database administrators with responsibility for query performance in SQL Server environments
and anyone responsible for writing or creating T-SQL queries and in need of insight into
bottlenecks—including how to identify them understand them and eliminate them
