As any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect example.

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Last Thursday, Greg Nerpouni gave me a briefing about and demo of Embarcadero Technologies’ three new and enhanced performance optimization tools for Java and SQL applications: J Optimizer 2009 for ...