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 ...

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 ...

Automatic tuning will be turned on by default for the SQL Database service running in the Microsoft Azure cloud, starting early next year. Though it's been available since early last year, automatic ...

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...

A newly released SQL Server baseline guide outlines how to collect and analyze historical performance data to define normal workload patterns and detect anomalies. It recommends using tools like DMVs, ...