Perhaps a bit of an esoteric problem but... I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm ...

SQL injection attacks already stand as one of the most effective means hackers use to break into enterprise database infrastructures today. Now the attack could get a boost in effectiveness when a ...

Maximize your SQL Server performance – right now! Optimizing SQL Server performance is challenging work. And while you can find a lot of info on general performance problems, there hasn’t been much ...

The optimizer is the heart and soul of a relational DBMS. It analyzes SQL statements and determines the most efficient access plan for satisfying each statement. The optimizer accomplishes this by ...

AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon ...

I am trying to output several large tables (10's of MB) from SQL PLus over Citrix and it's really slow. Code: set pagesize 0 set autotrace off set flush off set termout off spool l:\spool\acctact.txt ...