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 ...

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 ...

A developer of application code is probably quite content to consider a SQL Server as a collection of databases containing tables, indexes, triggers, stored procedures, and views. As a database ...

For many years, tuning storage performance (particularly shared storage arrays) has been seen as a dark art that requires a degree of skill and experience to achieve. But as the market evolves with ...