IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores in SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

Availability The latest versions of dbForge SQL Tools, including dbForge SQL Complete and dbForge Studio for SQL Server 7.1, are now available for download.

When SQL Server Management Studio is already open, the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu.

Users who are fluent in writing their own SQL queries can use the product’s online SQL editor, while those who don’t know SQL but understand their organizations’ database structures and tables can ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

DB Solo SQL Query Tool is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris platforms. DB Solo supports all major DBMS products available today, including Oracle, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, DB2 ...

New tool from startup Vembu Technologies is designed to relieve DBAs of the need to port SQL queries.

Standard edition of SQL Server 2016 only supports standard algorithms and data mining tools (Wizards, Editors, Query Builders) compared to SQL Server Enterprise edition, which provides a wide range of ...