Joey on SQL Server Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

However, there are any number of queries in any application that SQL Server may never see again (at least in, for example, the next 24 hours). The plans for these "one-time" queries are taking up ...

While the last two versions of SQL Server focused on improving performance by offering new features, SQL Server 2016 looks inwards towards improving existing functionality.

SQL Server performance is slow. Users are complaining. Your boss wants to know what's going on and what you can do to improve SQL Server performance. Where do you start? Which SQL Server query should ...

There are some queries where it’s difficult for SQL Server to make a good estimate of what the cardinality will be, so it gets the cost wrong.

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But ...

To verify this, I registered three servers in SSMS 2008, one SQL Server 2000, one SQL Server 2005 and one SQL Server 2008. I then ran queries through the Multi-Server Query interface with a single ...