The Query Store hints feature is available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, and like most database engine features, I would expect it to make its way into SQL Server at some point in the ...

Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do. Simply follow the steps here: Click on New Query ...

Figure 1. Execution plan of a server query. As you can see in the above execution plan, SQL Server has highlighted a missing index that it thinks would help our query improve.

In this on-demand session, we'll look at the entire SQL Server holistically, from the "hardware" allocated to the machine down to individual SQL Server query plans. We'll cover what tools are provided ...

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a virtual table to simplify queries and add a layer of security to your base ...