Missing indexes are one reason why an SQL query takes longer (much longer) to complete. Here's how to find out about them and fix the problem. In my previous article, Identifying your slowest SQL ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Database optimization has long relied on traditional methods that struggle with the complexities of modern data environments. These methods often fail to efficiently handle large-scale data, complex ...