CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

Microsoft has announced that read-only queries are now captured in the primary Query Store for Azure SQL, expanding visibility into database performance and workload behavior. Pre ...

I have a SQL server that only recently started failing with timeout exceptions. It is an older box and we are using it for more and more things. Before I write it off as a hardware/perf issue, I ...

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...

This week we will discuss one of the most common error messages we get while we install the SQL version of Windows. This is the third article of the SQL ...