When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

This Book aims to provide solutions to the most common problems encountered by the inexperienced (accidental) DBA. How does it fare? The premise behind the book’s title is that many DBA roles are ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

What happens when you submit SQL? This is the topic of chapter 5. In overview, the SQL passes to a Parser (which ensure syntax is correct), an algebrizer (name resolution, binding etc), an optimizer ...