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# SQL Performance Explained

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Review: Essential reading - Essentially the secret is indexing but creating the correct indexes is still a skill. This book clearly explains how indexing works and how to indentify what indexes are required. Performance is often an afterthought but this book should be essential reading for all developers so that performance considered before it becomes an issue.
Review: Delivers Results - I have a database with 7.5 million records and I was struggling with a query that was taking about 1 minute, 30 seconds to execute. 43 pages in and it is now executing in 3 seconds. This is exactly the result I was looking for. This is a technical book, aimed specifically at application developers, however it is well written and is not too heavy on the guts of databases. The first part of the book explains indexing very clearly and very simply. It then goes on to highlight the finer points of joins, sorting, clustering etc. Worked for me.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 349,191 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 37 in SQL Databases |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (106) |
| ISBN-10  | 3950307826 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-3950307825 |
| Item weight  | 340 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 204 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Jan. 2012 |
| Publisher  | Markus Winand |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential reading
*by A***N on 11 February 2017*

Essentially the secret is indexing but creating the correct indexes is still a skill. This book clearly explains how indexing works and how to indentify what indexes are required. Performance is often an afterthought but this book should be essential reading for all developers so that performance considered before it becomes an issue.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delivers Results
*by M***. on 1 July 2013*

I have a database with 7.5 million records and I was struggling with a query that was taking about 1 minute, 30 seconds to execute. 43 pages in and it is now executing in 3 seconds. This is exactly the result I was looking for. This is a technical book, aimed specifically at application developers, however it is well written and is not too heavy on the guts of databases. The first part of the book explains indexing very clearly and very simply. It then goes on to highlight the finer points of joins, sorting, clustering etc. Worked for me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good book
*by D***. on 29 August 2014*

I purchased this book principally for learning SQL tunning/Performance for oracle database however the book covers several widely used DBMS such as oracle, PostgreSQL, mysql, sql server, MySQL, . . . The domain is quite vast & as a beginner, if you just check the online oracle documentation, you can hardly find your way. This book opens the door. You learn the basic concepts and terminology (what is a BTree index, how it is read and how it can impact performance). There are many interesting examples, each of them, provided with execution plans. At the end of the book there is a summary of how to read an execution plan (dedicated section for each DBMS) The author uses a simple language and in general it seems that the book addresses principally those who almost don't know much about the performance problems. Yet I believe non beginners can also benefit from the interesting scenarios described in the book for investigating and tackling performance problems (very good & classic examples) The accent has been put on indexes. You will learn different type of indexes, how to improve them, how a database read an index, doing different type of index/table scans, how to investigate the cause of a slow query, etc. Personally I liked the book and I recommend it. I would've preferred to see more details in the book about the meaning of each section of an execution plan. Also it would be more helpful if the author gives more details about hash joins and hash group by. My conclusion: Excellent book and I recommend it.

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