This book focuses entirely on what SQL Server execution plans are, how to read them, and how to apply the information you learn

Эта книга полностью посвящена планам выполнения SQL Server, их чтению и применению информации, полученной из них, для повышения производительности ваших серверов SQL.

This book is written for professional programmers who have the need to design a relational database using any of the Microsoft SQL Server family of databases. It is intended to be useful for the beginner to advanced programmer, either strictly database programmers or a programmer that has never used a relational database product before to learn why relational databases are designed in the way they are, and get some practical examples and advice for creating databases.