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 ...

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 ...

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The first SQL book is SQL Performance Tuning by Peter Gulutzan and Trudy Pelzer. This fine tome provides a treasure trove of tips for improving SQL performance on all of the major database systems. It ...