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Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some ...

Many DBAs rely on SQL browser services to discover SQL Server instances. However, relying solely on the browser service is inadequate as SQL Express instances will not be seen. This can cause problems ...

SQL Server also has separate logs for the SQL Server Agent, as well as other components of the data platform, such as SQL Server Analysis Services. In each case, SQL Server keeps seven rolling log ...

There are situations in which you need to individually handle each row in a result set. SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task.

In addition, Siebel Systems Inc., Unisys Corp. and Microsoft have achieved the No. 1 benchmark result for Siebel eBusiness Applications with 30,000 concurrent users running Siebel 7 on a Unisys ES7000 ...

Accelerate your AI application's time to market by harnessing the power of your own data and the built-in AI capabilities of SQL Server 2025, the enterprise database with best-in-class security, ...

Performance increases across a wide variety of workloads are evidenced in recent public benchmark results, including the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s TPC-C and TPC-H, placing Windows ...