Abstract: As computer systems become more complex, evaluating performance requires tracking various hardware performance counters that capture the system’s internal activities. While these counters ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

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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 ...

You can use Performance Monitor to create an alert that is raised when a Performance Monitor counter reaches a threshold value. In response to the alert, Performance Monitor can launch an application, ...

Abstract: Performance Monitoring Counters (PMC) are hardware counters present in cores of the Central Process Unit. There are two types of counters, 1. Fixed counters and 2. Programmable Counters.

[!INCLUDE [SQL Server](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-windows-only.md)] If you are running Microsoft Windows server operating system, use the [Performance ...