As we are limiting user queries in SQL Server, we’re going to enforce two sets of limits (a row limits and rate limit) in the policy: rows : 10; rate_limit : 100; We don’t anticipate the support team ...

To determine the most costly SQL Server queries to optimize, it's essential to monitor server activity using Dynamic Management Views (DMVs). DMVs provide insights into the health and performance ...

Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...

SQL Server has long allowed users to specify a maximum degree of parallelism (DOP) for a server or for individual queries. However, fine-tuning the most performant DOP for every query in a workload ...

For XML support, SQL Server users can download the free SQLXML 2.0 add-on package. By default, this add-on supports bulk-additions of XML data into records and can return queries in XML.

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance ...