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How can understanding wait statistics improve query performance in SQL Server? Understanding wait statistics allows the data professional to tune individual queries or, if necessary, to tune ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

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Microsoft has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...

That’s a long time ago. Even in the Price/Performance category, SQL Server is only 4 th behind Oracle 11g. Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 is making a notable 5 th. Has Microsoft been sitting on its hands?

SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL is an agentless monitoring tool that provides real-time insights to optimize MySQL and MariaDB server performance.

SQL is a convenient way to manage and query your data, but badly written queries can tie up your database. Here are seven common SQL traps and how to avoid them.