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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Redgate, the Database DevOps solutions provider, is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

Data developers are still learning about all the new goodies that arrived with SQL Server 2022, which is chock full of new features and enhancements such as ledger for blockchain security. Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp. today released SQL Server 2022, the latest release of its popular SQL Server relational database. SQL Server can run in the cloud and on on-premises infrastructure. The latest release ...