Gorilla Guide

Understanding your query performance is critical to discerning the performance of your application. To many outsiders, databases can seem like a black box of performance information. But knowing how the database engine stores performance information—and how to interpret this data—allows you to grasp where the bottlenecks are in your database systems.

Download this paper from SolarWinds to learn how by comprehending the metrics inside the database engine, you can better focus your tuning efforts.

Highlights include:

• Comprehending database performance: internal database memory and metrics
• Understanding, generating, and capturing execution plans
• The importance of being able to examine execution plans and understand indexes