Q&A Performance Tuning SQL Server Using Wait Statistics 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 ...

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 ...

SQL performance tuning, which 78% of database developers say they do manually, can take up large amounts of time; 73% cited it as their biggest time commitment. Automating SQL performance tuning with ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

SQL Sentry, Inc., a developer of software products that optimize the performance of Microsoft SQL Server environments, and DBSophic, a provider of performance management products for database-centric ...

Automatic tuning assisted by artificial intelligence will be enabled by default for the Azure SQL Database service starting early next year.

As any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect ...