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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 ...

This book aims to improve the performance of your SQL Server queries by optimizing your configuration settings, how does it fare? Benjamin Nevarez concentrates on improving the performance of your SQL ...

Although there was significant fanfare surrounding SQL Server Query Store's initial release in SQL Server 2016, many companies have been hesitant about adopting the performance monitoring and ...

Data statistics can have a huge impact on both whether an index is used, and also how it is used. In this article we examine these statistics, in particular identifying if they are up to date, since ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...