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 ...

This book aims to improve the performance of your SQL Servers, how does it fare? The book discusses methods and tools, that can be used to identify and fix common SQL Server problems, using a ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare? This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance from various angles, but concentrates on improvements related ...

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