• Understand how the query optimizer works
• Troubleshoot queries using extended events, SQL trace, dynamic management views (DMVs), the data collector, and other tools
• Work with query operators for data access, joins, aggregations, parallelism, and updates
• Speed up queries and dramatically improve application performance by creating the right indexes
• Understand statistics and how to detect and fix cardinality estimation errors
• Maximize OLTP query performance using In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) features, including memory-optimized tables and natively compiled stored procedures
• Monitor and promote plan caching and reuse to improve application performance
• Improve the performance of data warehouse queries using columnstore indexes
• Handle query processor limitations with hints and other methods

Speaker Name

Benjamin Nevarez

Speaker Bio

Benjamin Nevarez is a SQL Server MVP and independent consultant based in Los Angeles, California who specializes in SQL Server query tuning and optimization. He is the author of “SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization” and “Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer” and co-author of “SQL Server 2012 Internals”. With more than 20 years of experience in relational databases, Benjamin has also been a speaker at many SQL Server conferences, including the PASS Summit, SQL Server Connections and SQLBits. Benjamin’s blog can be found at http://www.benjaminnevarez.com and he can also be reached by e-mail at admin at benjaminnevarez dot com and on twitter at @BenjaminNevarez.