This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #100 prompt by the creator of T-SQL Tuesday himself, Adam Machanic. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for SQL Server bloggers to share ideas about a ...

Allowing non-technical users to ask questions from a database has been a problem of interest in academia and industry for years. The recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM) technology, such as ...

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 ...

Database professionals agree – SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...