We run JD Edwards' One World here on an NT 4 sql server. It's a pretty decent server but lately it's been running like a dog.It's a 4-way 450mhz Xeon(2mb cache) machine with 4gigs of ram. All ...

Performance Tuning SQL Server Using Wait Statistics 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 ...

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 ...

Redgate is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced query identification, optimization ...

Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data.

Server Performance Enhancement: Fine-tuning Jan 1, 2008 12:00 AM Here are a few more quick tips to jazz up a file server: Note: The following actions require making changes to the Windows registry and ...

Automatic tuning will be turned on by default for the SQL Database service running in the Microsoft Azure cloud, starting early next year. Though it's been available since early last year, automatic ...