18.3. Summary

In this chapter, you covered the background concepts that this module covers. You looked at the differences between sizing and capacity planning. Finally, you examined the factors behind sizing and capacity planning. With this foundation, you can now move on to look at these concepts in detail.

18.3.1. More Information

• Information on tier level analysis is available in:

  Whalen, Edward, Marcilina Garcia, Steve Adrien DeLuca, and Dean Thompson, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference, (Microsoft Press, ISBN: 0-7356-1270-6)

• For MSDN articles on tuning performance in .NET-based applications:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsent7/html/vxconbestpracticesstrategiesforperformance.asp

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/dotnetperftechs.asp

• For an interesting example of queuing theory:

  Salgi, Ran, Ilanit Guedj, and Guy Leonov, Queuing Theory Project, University of Tel Aviv, School of Mathematics, http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~rshalgi/final/