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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

You're reading from   ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets Simple and proven techniques to quickly speed up your ASP.NET website

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690683
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mattijs Perdeck Mattijs Perdeck
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. High Level Diagnosis FREE CHAPTER 2. Reducing Time to First Byte 3. Memory 4. CPU 5. Caching 6. Thread Usage 7. Reducing Long Wait Times 8. Speeding up Database Access 9. Reducing Time to Last Byte 10. Compression 11. Optimizing Forms 12. Reducing Image Load Times 13. Improving JavaScript Loading 14. Load Testing

Installing a database


If your website uses a database, and you are hosting the test site on one of your development machines, you will need to install a database server.

Downloading

If you do not have a copy of SQL Server you can legally install on a new machine, there are two free options:

  • Use the free SQL Server Express. This edition limits databases to 4 GB, and uses only 1 CPU and 1 GB of memory. You will want to install the Advanced Services edition of SQL Server Express, because it has some very useful additional features, such as Full Text search.

    To download SQL Server 2008 with advanced services, open http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/default.aspx, and then click on the Installation Options tab. There, you will find the download link.

  • Use SQL Server Developer edition. This includes all of the functionality of Enterprise Edition, but is licensed only for development, test, and demonstration uses. It is also quite cheap to buy. Download a free 180-day trial version at http...

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