When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

SQL views make accessing multiple data types and storing complex queries easier whereas materialized views can help you improve efficiency and boost performance.

When PROC SQL executes the view, the stored query assigns the libref and establishes the DBMS connection using the information in the LIBNAME statement. The scope of the libref is local to the view, ...

The outer PROC SQL query retrieves data from the view descriptor; the subquery uses a Pass-Through query to retrieve data. This query returns the names of employees who earn less than the average ...

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...

Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...