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 ...

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA today released SQL Query Store Optimizer, the latest free tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools, to help database administrators (DBAs) easily manage and ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores. The free tool ...

Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...

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Do you ever tune SQL? See how OakTable network member, Oracle ACE Director and Pro Oracle SQL author Karen Morton combines real-time profiling with a Visual SQL Tuner to find and fix performance ...