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 ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company), a provider of powerful database productivity tools, today announced the latest release of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL v8.9. This release ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, today announced the launch of its next-generation Reflections technology, revolutionizing the landscape of SQL query ...

NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 — Dremio today announced new capabilities that ensure its market leading Apache Iceberg lakehouse is the most flexible, fast, and easy-to-use for every data environment. At its ...

SQL is a convenient way to manage and query your data, but badly written queries can tie up your database. Here are seven common SQL traps and how to avoid them. Database developers have it tough.