As a developer most of the time your SQL Server performance issues are indexing issues. But what if they are not? Join Bryden Oliver as he takes you on a whirlwind trip through the world of database performance tuning. He'll cover how to identify the key symptoms of your issue and then how to drilldown to identify root causes. We'll cover I/O, CPU and memory pressure, locking and blocking, tempdb issues and deadlocks. Why are all of these bad, why is this happening and what can you do about it. This will give you a new appreciation for the difficulties DBAs face and help those who don't have DBAs around, enough background to solve most issues. Finally I'll throw you at a smorgasbord of fantastic free resources that will let you fill in the details when you encounter these problems in the wild.