The first step is to look at the execution plan for the query and see if there are any glaring problems. Put the query in a new query window in SQL Server Management Studio. Looking at the ...

This hint means that SQL Server will generate a new execution plan for each execution of a given query. Using the RECOMPILE hint is not for all queries, and you should be careful with it ...

Viewing the available options in the Query menu of Query Analyzer. (Click image to view larger version.) Of particular interest is the option to Show Execution Plan. When this option is enabled, SQL ...

The guide covers best practices for analyzing SQL query execution plans, how to identify and resolve common performance bottlenecks, and tips for tuning queries to improve database performance.

SQL Server has an optimizer that usually does a great job of optimizing code for the most effective execution. A query execution plan is the breakdown of how the optimizer will run (or ran ...

For distributed SQL query execution, BlazingSQL draws on Dask ... to create a relational algebra plan from a SQL string. The Relational Algebra Engine (RAL) handles all the smarts of creating ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...