One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

Database performance is rarely a single "fix it and forget it" task. SQL Server workloads shift over time. A sluggish ...

I have a SQL 2000 SP4 server and MOM 2005 is reporting that the tempdb database log file is getting to large. Sure enough, it the templog.ldf file is a little over 9GB in size. I honestly don't know ...

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 ...