If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

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 ...

Keeping statistics up to date is vital to database performance important. Stale statistics can result in queries taking much longer to run. Here's a utility that will update the statistics in an ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Keeping statistics up to date is vital to database performance important. Stale statistics can result in queries taking much longer to run. Here's a utility that will update the statistics in an ...