Perhaps a bit of an esoteric problem but... I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm ...

A comprehensive database optimization framework integrating connection pooling, distributed caching, and multi-layer encryption achieves ...

Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

The optimizer is the heart and soul of a relational DBMS. It analyzes SQL statements and determines the most efficient access plan for satisfying each statement. The optimizer accomplishes this by ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

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 ...

I am trying to output several large tables (10's of MB) from SQL PLus over Citrix and it's really slow. Code: set pagesize 0 set autotrace off set flush off set termout off spool l:\spool\acctact.txt ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, today announced Yugabyte Startups, a new program tailored specifically for startups to optimize their ...

Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on ...

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 ...