It’s not surprising that developers have become increasingly dependent on the open source PostgreSQL, the nearly 30-year-old ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

I connected DAX Studio to a published Power BI semantic model, turned on Server Timings and ran a DAX query. When the query ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

Autonomous index tuning (“auto-indexing” for short) has recently started being supported by cloud database service providers. Index tuners rely on query optimizer’s cost estimates to recommend indexes ...

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Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...

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 ...