Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

SQL Server performance is slow. Users are complaining. Your boss wants to know what's going on and what you can do to improve SQL Server performance. Where do you start? Which SQL Server query should ...

Redgate Software is launching a new version of its SQL Server monitoring tool to enable accelerated analysis of SQL Server problems. The platform, SQL Monitor, is a web based SQL Server alerting and ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne launched SQL Sentry Essentials, a new edition of the company’s top-rated SQL Sentry database monitoring product that provides core monitoring capabilities ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA--(Marketwired - Jun 3, 2013) - In booth 2316 at Microsoft TechEd, Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced Idera SQL diagnostic manager ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne launched SQL Sentry Essentials, a new edition of the company’s top-rated SQL Sentry database monitoring product that provides core monitoring capabilities ...