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 any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect example.

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 ...