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 ...

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 ...

When your SQL queries are slower than your GenAI assistant, and your only option to speed up your assistant is to speed up its slowest SQL query, then you know what it feels like to see an otherwise ...