Ok, let's say I have three different queries that all return the same result set.One uses a temp table, the other a correlated subquery, ...

In this benchmark, Microsoft is doing quite well with SQL Server 2008 x64 leading the way running on an IBM System x3950 M2 64-way server under Windows Server 2008. In fact, Microsoft has the top ...

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 ...

Customers can also gain tremendous performance improvement by simply upgrading to SQL Server 2016 without application changes (e.g. queries will run up to 34x faster) 5. In addition to leading ...

Learn how to improve your SQL server performance with RAID cache in six steps. Find out how to choose a mode, configure settings, use a benchmark tool, analyze results, and optimize configuration.

You can generate and view the query plan using tools like SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, or MySQL Workbench. Add your perspective Help others by sharing more (125 characters ...

Results of SQL Server 2005 using the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) H benchmark will be released by Unisys later this month. They indicate a cost per transaction of $41.92, compared with the ...

InfiniDB, which recently introduced InfiniDB 4.5, has announced the results of a new benchmark test conducted by Radiant Advisors to compare the performance of leading open source SQL-on-Hadoop query ...

SSB is an Open Source Benchmark tool written in Python. It is designed to generate a ‘real-world’ workload that emulates SQL database interaction in such a way to measure the performance of the ...