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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

Query tuning is key to peak performance in SQL Server databases. However, lots of developers and DBAs constantly struggle to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues and spend way too much time ...

Most SQL Server performance issues aren’t caused by “big” problems. They’re usually the result of small, overlooked inefficiencies that quietly compound over time until everything feels slow, unstable ...

If you're in charge of index tuning for SQL Server, check out this really neat idea. It uses Query Store to find the missing indexes based on the queries that run the longest, nothing to do with ...

This paper demystifies query tuning by providing a rigorous 12-step process that database professionals at any level can use to systematically assess and adjust query performance, starting from the ...

A collection of Claude Code skills covering the full SQL Server performance tuning workflow — from static T-SQL source review to execution plan analysis, I/O statistics, workload traces, wait ...

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 ...