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 ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

At one time, the only thing that really mattered when benchmarking Web servers was performance. But performance as a sole measure of servers has gone the way of the muscle car era, and the Standard ...