SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

However the exploration and visualisations available in sql management studio allows a database at once experience. The objective of Shiny Explorer is to have a global view of the queries for all ...

Tune Database using Workload from SQL Server Query Store The Query Store feature in SQL Server automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics, and persists this information ...

IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores in SQL Server ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

A box of tricks (SQL scripts) that I've built up over many years for Microsoft SQL Server instance and database administration, and general working-with-data ...

Joey on SQL Server How To Use Query Store Hints in Azure SQL Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the ...