I Programmer

Improve SQL Performance – Know Your Statistics

Data statistics can have a huge impact on both whether an index is used, and also how it is used. In this article we examine these statistics, in particular identifying if they are up to date, since ...
I Programmer

Improve SQL performance – An Intelligent Update Statistics Utility

Keeping statistics up to date is vital to database performance important. Stale statistics can result in queries taking much longer to run. Here's a utility that will update the statistics in an ...

5 Points to Check First When SQL Is Slow: How to Improve Execution Plans, Indexes, and JOINs

When you execute an SQL query, the results do not return quickly.You may have had no issues during development, but the ...

[Database Series 06] Understand Bind Variables! Basic Techniques to Prevent SQL Injection and Improve Performance

The content of this article might be a bit difficult for those with no programming experience.This is because, in my ...
Redmond

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 database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...