A new tool available for download from Microsoft is designed to allow customers to analyze their environments running SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer ...

The Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer is part of the client tools that come with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. It's designed to analyze the SQL queries that you or a program makes that ...

What exactly does 1 unit of cost represent in SQL Query Analyzer execution plans? [ie: Subtree Cost: 41.2134] Obviously it is some form of measurement since a very simple "select @@version" is like ...

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SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

I'm not sure it really is actually estimated because as far as I know the only way it can show you what the query plan is is by executing it. So then it really isn't an estimate. I'm sure I'm totally ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...