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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When your SQL queries are slower than your GenAI assistant, and your only option to speed up your assistant is to speed up its slowest SQL query, then you know what it feels like to see an otherwise ...