• In many systems, a few SQL statements can cause CPU usage to spike and the operating system to become overloaded. Therefore, identifying and optimizing Top SQL is the most effective breakthrough for ...

Maximize your SQL Server performance – right now! Optimizing SQL Server performance is challenging work. And while you can find a lot of info on general performance problems, there hasn’t been ...

I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm still coming up short.

To prevent and diagnose availability, health, and performance issues it is essential to review and manage the configuration of SQL Server instances and databases. Whether you want to view and modify ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

This week Seagate and Supermicro announced a preconfigured SQL server reference architecture for data warehouse deployments, as part of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 Fast Track program.

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...

Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

I am trying to output several large tables (10's of MB) from SQL PLus over Citrix and it's really slow. set pagesize 0 set autotrace off set flush off set termout off spool l:\\spool\\acctact.txt ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, today announced Yugabyte Startups, a new program tailored specifically for startups to optimize ...