Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Introduced in SQL Server 2016, the query store is a data collection utility that captures data about query execution plans and runtime performance information, and stores them in the database for ...

If you’re using one of the Azure data­bases, you can take advantage of Query Performance Insight for many additional visualizations about the overall resource con­sumption of your Azure databases.

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To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Further, Database Insights extends beyond SQL Server to provide some of the broadest database coverage available in the industry, managing the performance of more than 20 database platforms, from ...

Never shy to compare its services to its competitors, Microsoft also notes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse can support up to 128 concurrent queries now, compared to the 50 that Amazon Redshift is ...