OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

SolarWinds has expanded its database performance management portfolio with the launch of SolarWinds Database Insights for SQL Server. Uniting the features and functionality of the SolarWinds Database ...

I've been doing a little work on trying to improve performance of our HBA's in our SQL servers. We've done some extensive testing on Queue Depth settings as that's one of the settings to change 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 ...

I have a cloud hosted (Rackspace) Windows server running SQL 2008 R2 Express, which is supposedly limited to using 1 GB of RAM. Performance has not been what we wanted, so we had Rackspace deploy for ...

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