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 ...

The riders in the Tour de France are probably the most monitored athletes in the world. In preparation for the race, every ounce of food a rider consumes is specially formulated to give him maximum ...

We run JD Edwards' One World here on an NT 4 sql server. It's a pretty decent server but lately it's been running like a dog.<BR><BR>It's a 4-way 450mhz Xeon(2mb cache) machine with 4gigs of ram. All ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

SQL Sentry, Inc., a developer of software products that optimize the performance of Microsoft SQL Server environments, and DBSophic, a provider of performance management products for database-centric ...

REDMOND, Wash., June 14, 2001 — Providing customers with cutting-edge technology that is both immediately usable and deployable is nothing new for Microsoft Corp. Many years ago, the developers of ...