Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

In SQL Server, there are several tools including SQL Profiler, Activity Monitor and Standard Reports which can extract good information and somehow carry the load of a large part of the monitoring ...

Joey on SQL Server Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

Three important tools are now integrated into SQL Server 2000’s Query Analyzer. SQL Trace lets you trace code directly from a query window, without running the Profiler.

While the last two versions of SQL Server focused on improving performance by offering new features, SQL Server 2016 looks inwards towards improving existing functionality.

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...