The riders in the Tour de France are probably the most monitored athletes in the world. In preparation for the race, every ounce of food a rider consumes is specially formulated to give him maximum ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare? This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance from various angles, but concentrates on improvements related ...

Do your SQL queries run too quickly? I thought not! Many DBAs don’t know where to start performance tuning. The August issue of SQL Server Pro suggests strategies for achieving peak performance. There ...

There is one commonality amongst all these professionals: no one has time to spare. Everyone wants to streamline processes and solve problems as quickly as possible and move on to the next issue of ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

SQL Server performance tuning is a complex topic due to how layered it is. While performance problems can often be traced back to data storage issues, the performance tuning process is a "holistic ...

New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution—turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...