Although there was significant fanfare surrounding SQL Server Query Store's initial release in SQL Server 2016, many companies have been hesitant about adopting the performance monitoring and ...

This book aims to use Query Store to improve your SQL Server queries, how does it fare? Query Store is a tool that collects performance related information, allowing you to identify the cause of ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

Microsoft introduced the Query Store when they released SQL Server 2016 and it can track statement performances, pinpoint queries and more. DBTA recently held a webinar focused on the new features and ...

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

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 ...

IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores. The free tool ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare? This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance from various angles, but concentrates on improvements related ...