When SQL Server Management Studio is already open, the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu.

Users who are fluent in writing their own SQL queries can use the product’s online SQL editor, while those who don’t know SQL but understand their organizations’ database structures and tables can ...

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 ...

Freely download and preview this tool now." The version of the My SQL migration tool that supports SQL Server 2008 is designed to work with MySQL 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1.

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

The SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment tool (VA) is a feature within SQL Server Management Server (SSMS) 17.4 that scans your SQL Server instances of version 2012 and later, identifies security ...

Airbnb has open sourced Airpal, the tool it built to help employees get to data they need to use. It's built on Facebook's open source Presto SQL engine.

2) Generate a dynamic SQL statement server side and execute it. 3) Execute multiple performance-optimized queries client-side and then use LINQ or similar to AND and OR the result sets as necessary.

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

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.