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She reached into her bag and pulled out a weathered, heavy volume: .
Her latest deployment—a simple reporting module—had brought the multi-terabyte SQL Server to its knees. The CEO was already calling. Every time she tried to run a trace, the management studio froze. She was flying blind in a storm of her own making. SQL Server Query Performance Tuning, 4th Edition
"CXPACKET," she muttered, seeing the results of her diagnostic query. "Parallelism overhead." She reached into her bag and pulled out
Sarah leaned back, the hum of the cooling fans finally sounding like music rather than a dirge. She patted the book's spine. In the world of database tuning, she realized, you don't need a bigger server; you just need to know how to talk to the one you have. " she muttered