Do your SQL queries run too quickly? I thought not! Many DBAs don’t know where to start performance tuning. The August issue of SQL Server Pro suggests strategies for achieving peak performance. There ...

Performance tuning can be difficult, with this in mind, Microsoft has created some features that can automatically correct troublesome areas. The optimizer uses various attributes (e.g. row counts, ...

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 ...

SQL Server performance tuning is a complex topic due to how layered it is. While performance problems can often be traced back to data storage issues, the performance tuning process is a "holistic ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

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 ...