Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

For SQL Azure that’s Azure Blob storage of Azure Confidential Ledger, ... The SQL Server query optimizer estimates the cost of running a query plan using the number of rows that will be ...

In this two-part series, I'll tell you about some improvements Microsoft is making in SQL Server 2022 to improve cardinality estimates and deal with another common query optimization concern ...

Hari Babu Dama is a cloud database architect and optimization expert with over a decade of professional experience spanning Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and advanced multi-cloud ecosystems.

With SQL Query Store Optimizer, we’re helping DBAs improve the performance of complex queries, and make their work less complicated.” IDERA now has more than 22 free tools in its portfolio of ...

Azure SQL database. To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. ... Click the Query editor link, log in, and start making queries, as shown in Figure E.