How can understanding wait statistics improve query performance in SQL Server? Understanding wait statistics allows the data professional to tune individual queries or, if necessary, to tune ...

Improve dynamic SQL performance with binds Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. Written by Scott Stephens, Contributor April 14, 2005, 9:00 a.m. PT ...

OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases.

While working with SQL Server databases, if you often find the database performance sluggish, it could be due to bad coding of procedures or incorrectly set database variables. Here's a tool that ...

In a DevOps environment, the best approach is to measure, analyze and improve SQL statements at all stages as your code progresses from development to testing to production. The more SQL performance ...

To improve performance, look at the database design and make sure it has appropriate indexes. For example, your tables in an SQL Server or Azure SQL database should all have a pri­mary key and ...

In late 2016, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database In-Memory technologies. In-Memory processing is only available in Azure Premium database tiers and provides ...

Joey on SQL Server How To Be a Better DBA: 4 Strategies To Improve SQL Server Performance There are plenty of ways to get the most out of SQL Server without just upgrading to the latest version.

I have a cloud hosted (Rackspace) Windows server running SQL 2008 R2 Express, which is supposedly limited to using 1 GB of RAM. Performance has not been what we wanted, so we had Rackspace deploy ...