Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Query tuning is key to peak performance in SQL Server databases. However, lots of developers and DBAs constantly struggle to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues and spend way too much time ...

SQL tuning is hard but taking the right steps to improve your query performance tuning can lead you to an efficient, timely and correct course of action. With the help of this eCourse, you'll learn ...

Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...

This interactive Streamlit-based tool is designed to analyze SQL Server queries both structurally and in terms of execution performance. It supports dynamic metadata fetching from the database or an ...

Determining the degree of parallelism (DOP) for query execution is of great importance to both performance and resource provisioning. However, recent work that applies machine learning (ML) to query ...