Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

SolarWinds has expanded its database performance management portfolio with the launch of SolarWinds Database Insights for SQL Server. Uniting the features and functionality of the SolarWinds Database ...

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 ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

"The application is horribly slow.", "I don't get the response even after I get my coffee.", "This application is useless". Sounds familiar? How many times have we heard these quotes or or felt like ...

Built-in intelligence – SQL Server 2025 optimising performance and insight. Key takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline. Built-in ...

OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL ...