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 ...

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 ...

Taking the time to tune your SQL server can deliver big performance improvements and bring with it a whole flood of other benefits that make it entirely worthwhile. Here are words of wisdom from an ...

This article explains how to enable, verify, and disable performance monitoring for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and how to view and query the data that it collects. Performance ...

Production performance problems arrive with pressure. Users are waiting. Jobs are queued. Management wants answers in five minutes. The fastest-looking response — jumping straight to a query plan, ...

This project is more than a collection of SQL scripts. The SQL Server Diagnostics desktop application brings together a curated set of SQL Server diagnostic checks into a single tool, helping you ...

SQL Server 2019 (15.x) builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud environments, and operating ...