When all queries against a SQL Server instance or a particular database application are slow, the cause is often outside any single query. This article helps database administrators and application ...

This feature will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. For high availability ...

Microsoft confirms recent Windows updates cause SQL Server performance and stability issues. An emergency fix is coming.

Explore server-side performance optimization with profiling, slow query analysis, caching and concurrency fixes for faster ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

This book aims to improve the performance of your SQL Server queries by optimizing your configuration settings, how does it fare? Benjamin Nevarez concentrates on improving the performance of your SQL ...

A common task that all database and system administrators face is patching systems. Patching your systems is very important -- first and foremost, security fixes are included in patches. Patches also ...

Although there was significant fanfare surrounding SQL Server Query Store's initial release in SQL Server 2016, many companies have been hesitant about adopting the performance monitoring and ...

Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck. It's not just about knowing how SQL ...