This article provides information to collect a performance baseline as a series of best practices and guidelines to optimize performance for your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). There is ...
1.Q: A SQL Server is running slow suddenly. What’s the first thing you check? A: Start with sp_whoisactive / Activity Monitor to see active sessions, blocking chains, high CPU queries, or waits. Then ...
What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...
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 ...