IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores in SQL Server ...

For all the times you don't have SQL Server Manager, here's a tool that's easy to get for prowling databases and issuing SQL commands.

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

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.

Microsoft has released a public preview of SQL Operations Studio, a cross platform tool for working with SQL Server. This product is based on the existing Visual Studio Code editor and uses the ...

New tool from startup Vembu Technologies is designed to relieve DBAs of the need to port SQL queries.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

Joey on SQL Server How To Use Query Store Hints in Azure SQL Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the ...

Limitations aside, this tool provided with SQL Server is an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to get up and running quickly with data profiling.