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 ...

This book aims to give you the tools and knowledge to get peak performance from your queries, how does it fare? The book, which is largely an update to the author’s Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

SQL Server performance tuning is a complex topic due to how layered it is. While performance problems can often be traced back to data storage issues, the performance tuning process is a "holistic ...

The title of this book is a pretty good summary of the contents, especially with its subtitle of ‘Troubleshoot and optimize query performance in SQL Server 2012’. The book has a number of problems ...

This paper demystifies query tuning by providing a rigorous 12-step process that database professionals at any level can use to systematically assess and adjust query performance, starting from the ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...