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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

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 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.

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

Latest service pack comes more than a year after the last service pack, and also adds a number of enhanced monitoring capabilities. It's been a long time coming -- nearly a year and a half since ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...