Quest Software has launched a free cloud-based service that analyses SQL Server trace files and helps determine the source of performance issues. The company announced the new service, currently in ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

When it comes to assigning value to different components in today’s IT environment, it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the value of data and databases. Whether you are looking to reduce ...

Anyone have any ideas about how to simulate real-world scenarios in a dev environment? Specifically regarding SQL Server. To get a good picture of real-world performance behaviors (locking, blocking ...

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 ...

See performance gains by using indexed views in SQL Server Your email has been sent A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a ...

I have been testing SQL Server 2005 SP3 CTP this week. This Beta version of SP3, which is due out for official release before the end of the year, includes all of the previous cumulative updates for ...