With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

At the PASS Summit in Seattle last week, Idera announced SQL doctor 1.1 and SQL diagnostic manager 6.5. The solutions help DBAs anticipate SQL performance problems and offer remedies before they ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

I have users complaining about slow performance in one of our internal applications. The application is, essentially, a front end to a SQL database. We've built a new server for it because the old one ...

While working with SQL Server databases, if you often find the database performance sluggish, it could be due to bad coding of procedures or incorrectly set database variables. Here's a tool that can ...

During the last few weeks, two events important to the SQL Server community have transpired. First, Microsoft announced SQL Server 2000 pricing. Second, the company withdrew its record-breaking TPC-C ...

When I worked for Sybase, much of the advertising we published was based on the TPC performance benchmark figures of Sybase SQL Server compared to the competition ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA (a division of Idera, Inc.), a provider of powerful database productivity tools, today announced a major release of SQL Diagnostic Manager. This release introduces the ...

The better your SQL database performs, the more effectively it will fulfill its purpose of providing information to the apps and services that rely upon it to function. Optimizing database performance ...

IBM will be joining Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others in the great SQL-on-Hadoop performance race when it ships Big SQL version 3 next month. In addition to peddling unadulterated speed, IBM will be ...