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Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

You can add Showplan event classes to a trace definition that cause [!INCLUDE [ssSqlProfiler](../../includes/sssqlprofiler-md.md)] to gather and display query plan ...

We’ve updated our article on Threads to include the news that advertising on Threads is now open to all Meta advertisers. Threads has become the fastest-growing social media platform in history since ...

Instagram’s new Twitter-like Threads app raced to 100 million users in a matter of days after its launch last month, but the company has more work to do if it wants to make Threads an important ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

When the US eased internet sanctions on Iran to ensure Iranians would continue to have access to information during the mass protest movement currently engulfing the country, Elon Musk tweeted that he ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...