I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm still coming up short.

Of course, if your PG server is running on a virtual machine, increasing hardware resources can also be an emergency option.

• In many systems, a few SQL statements can cause CPU usage to spike and the operating system to become overloaded. Therefore, identifying and optimizing Top SQL is the most effective breakthrough for ...

Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

This week Seagate and Supermicro announced a preconfigured SQL server reference architecture for data warehouse deployments, as part of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 Fast Track program.

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 ...

Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

I am trying to output several large tables (10's of MB) from SQL PLus over Citrix and it's really slow. set pagesize 0 set autotrace off set flush off set termout off spool l:\\spool\\acctact.txt ...

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