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 ...

We run JD Edwards' One World here on an NT 4 sql server. It's a pretty decent server but lately it's been running like a dog.<BR><BR>It's a 4-way 450mhz Xeon(2mb cache) machine with 4gigs of ram. All ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...

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Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...

See performance gains by using indexed views in SQL Server Your email has been sent A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a ...