Last Thursday, Greg Nerpouni gave me a briefing about and demo of Embarcadero Technologies’ three new and enhanced performance optimization tools for Java and SQL applications: J Optimizer 2009 for ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technologies like Entity Framework can drastically simplify the programming model against databases, but when done carelessly, performance can suffer. To keep that from ...