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 ...

This repository contains a set of focused diagnostic and tuning scripts for Microsoft SQL Server. These scripts are part of a hands-on capstone project to help develop and demonstrate foundational ...

Master SQL from basics to advanced topics with this structured roadmap, covering queries, joins, subqueries, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning. 🎯 Stay on Track with Visual Progress ...

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, ...