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A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

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, ...

As a database professional, understanding how SQL Server manages its internal resources is the key to unlocking peak performance. One of the most misunderstood and, consequently, misconfigured ...

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 ...

These two configuration options control how the SQL Memory Manager handles memory growth and reduction for a SQL Server process used by an instance of SQL Server. This is specifically the amount of ...

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 ...