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 ...

We run JD Edwards' One World here on an NT 4 sql server. It's a pretty decent server but lately it's been running like a dog. It's a 4-way 450mhz Xeon(2mb cache) machine with 4gigs of ram. All drives ...

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 ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

SQL Sentry, Inc., a developer of software products that optimize the performance of Microsoft SQL Server environments, and DBSophic, a provider of performance management products for database-centric ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline. Built-in intelligence is embedded directly into the platform, reducing reliance on external tooling.