Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

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 ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the last few weeks, two events important to the SQL Server community have transpired. First, Microsoft announced SQL Server 2000 pricing. Second, the company withdrew its record-breaking TPC-C ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2003 — Microsoft Corp., Intel and HP announced today the world’s first single-system TPC-C* benchmark result to surpass the 600,000 tpmC mark. This record-breaking performance ...