Do you know how to measure the impact on performance of your SQL changes? Do you know which parts of your stored procedures (or batch of SQL statements) you need to optimise? Both of these questions ...

The purpose of this is to ensure the SQL that follows does not take out any locks and does not honour any locks, allowing it to run faster and without hindrance. We take a snapshot of the initial ...

Microsoft engineer Bob Ward introduces sqlsimtools, an open-source SQL Server workload simulation and performance testing suite. Sqlsimtools supports Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, concurrent workload ...

When all queries against a SQL Server instance or a particular database application are slow, the cause is often outside any single query. This article helps database administrators and application ...