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 ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare? This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance from various angles, but concentrates on improvements related ...

The title of this book is a pretty good summary of the contents, especially with its subtitle of ‘Troubleshoot and optimize query performance in SQL Server 2012’. The book has a number of problems ...

The success of nearly every application is determined by its reliability and performance. Squeezing every millisecond out of a solution is an ongoing task for most application designers and ...