Part of the problem is that there is no magic bullet, and for almost every best practice, I can show you at least one exception. Typically, a developer finds his or her own favorite methods — though ...

Do your SQL queries run too quickly? I thought not! Many DBAs don’t know where to start performance tuning. The August issue of SQL Server Pro suggests strategies for achieving peak performance. There ...

Taking the time to tune your SQL server can deliver big performance improvements and bring with it a whole flood of other benefits that make it entirely worthwhile. Here are words of wisdom from an ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...