Dynamic Management Views
Kellyn Pot’vin · Apress eBooks · 2012
I’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.5 and was introduced to performance tuning and high-intensity database management in SQL Server 7 back in 2000. The environment at that time was a SQL Server 7 implementation clustered on a Compaq SAN and pulling in 1 to 4 gigabytes (GB) per day, which was considered a great deal for a SQL Server back then. Performance tuning incorporated what appeared as voodoo to many at this time. I found great success only through the guidance of great mentors while being technically trained in a mixed platform of Oracle and SQL Server. Performance tuning was quickly becoming second nature to me. It was something I seemed to intuitively and logically comprehend the benefits and power of. Even back then, many viewed SQL Server as the database platform anyone could install and configure, yet many soon came to realize that a “database is a database,” no matter what the platform is. This meant the obvious-: the natural life of a database is growth and change. So, sooner or later, you were going to need a database administrator to manage it and tune all aspects of the complex environment.