Title: Too Shallow
Product review: Most of this book is a high level introduction to various Microsoft tools (ACT, perfmon, netmon, IIS sever logs, ASP.NET tracing, SQL Server query analyzer, SQL Server profiler) and a little coverage of Compuware's tools. There are 2 chapters on performance prediction: one covering extrapolation (known as TCA) and one covering modeling (Indy).The problems this book attempts to address are not easy; solving them requires a lot more than a tools overview. The chapter on extrapolation is misleading, implying that you can focus on a single metric, and not explaining prediction involving multiple metrics. The chapter on modeling is very unsatisfactory: they show off this cool looking tool (Indy) but never explain where to get it from.
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