Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

Anyone have any ideas about how to simulate real-world scenarios in a dev environment? Specifically regarding SQL Server. To get a good picture of real-world performance behaviors (locking ...

SQL Server is a robust and mature product and the number of features available to database administrators and developers continues to mount. Do not let fear of upgrading – to a new version or to a new ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud.

News SQL Server 2012 Offers Testing Capabilities for Amazon Cloud By David Ramel October 28, 2011 Amazon and Microsoft have teamed up to give developers a way to test Microsoft's upcoming version of ...

SQL Server 2017 beta release includes some new authentication, security and machine learning enhancements.