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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance] The goal of monitoring databases is to assess how a server is performing. Effective monitoring involves taking periodic snapshots of ...

In [!INCLUDEsssql16-md] and later, some changes are only enabled once the database compatibility level has been changed. This was done for several reasons: Since upgrade is a one-way operation (it isn ...

Devart is releasing dbForge 2025.1, updating dbForge tools for all database systems, including SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL along with the introduction of an AI-powered assistant.