One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

Microsoft began a wide beta testing program of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Monday, a much anticipated--and delayed--product central to the company's server software line. The ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

5 Management makeover The outward face of SQL Server 2005 is SQL Server Management Studio, a tool that rolls in all the applications in SQL Server 2000, including Enterprise Manager and Query ...

To verify this, I registered three servers in SSMS 2008, one SQL Server 2000, one SQL Server 2005 and one SQL Server 2008. I then ran queries through the Multi-Server Query interface with a single ...

Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).

While the first beta of SQL Server 2005 was limited to about 3,000 official testers, the second will be made available to about half a million programmers and SQL Server customers, the company said.

Microsoft will end support for SQL Server 2005 on April 12, forcing users to switch to another SQL Server version or put themselves at risk for security breaches. For those ready to make the switch, ...