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 ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...

Production performance problems arrive with pressure. Users are waiting. Jobs are queued. Management wants answers in five minutes. The fastest-looking response — jumping straight to a query plan, ...

Connection establishment is the single most expensive operation the driver performs. Almost every PHP performance investigation ends with a connection-management fix. Pooling reuses ODBC connections ...

Before changing the SQL Server edition, collect baseline performance data from the current environment. Baseline data is invaluable when comparing performance before and after the edition change. For ...

This project is more than a collection of SQL scripts. The SQL Server Diagnostics desktop application brings together a curated set of SQL Server diagnostic checks into a single tool, helping you ...