How can understanding wait statistics improve query performance in SQL Server? Understanding wait statistics allows the data professional to tune individual queries or, if necessary, to tune ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

The more SQL performance testing that can be accomplished by developers, the earlier performance problems will be found and corrected. And that means the cost of delivering high-quality database ...

Microsoft publishes SQL Server 2025 Release candidate with TLS 1.3, Ubuntu 24.04 support and many AI improvements. Reading processes are up to 50 times faster, but an important restriction remains ...

SQL performance tuning, which 78% of database developers say they do manually, can take up large amounts of time; 73% cited it as their biggest time commitment. Automating SQL performance tuning with ...

Enjoy faster SQL Follow these dos and don’ts whenever you can when writing queries or processes to improve your SQL performance, but remember to evaluate each situation individually to see which ...

That’s a long time ago. Even in the Price/Performance category, SQL Server is only 4 th behind Oracle 11g. Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 is making a notable 5 th. Has Microsoft been sitting on its hands?

Microsoft has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...