I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

If I have a SQL server process that has been running for some time, are there any methods to determining how much memory it really needs to run? I have a couple of low usage databases and I want to ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

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