Tag Archives: Performance

More Query Tuning?

Posted on June 15, 2018 by way0utwest

This is probably a topic near and dear to the hearts of Grant, Brent, Paul #2 (White), and plenty other more well known speakers in the #sqlfamily community that often present on the topic of writing more efficient code. They do a fantastic job … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Tuning Skills

Posted on June 6, 2018 by way0utwest

Performance tuning a SQL Server instance, database, or even query is a skill that most of us could improve. In fact, I see that the query performance presentations are often the most popular learning items at any event. I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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We Need DevOps for Performance

Posted on November 28, 2017 by way0utwest

I read this nice piece on CosmosDB and setting performance levels. It covers how you set some level of performance for Request Units (RU) and CosmosDB handles the rest. Great, right? Set the level of performance you need and that gets handled. The … Continue reading →

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Graphing Performance

Posted on August 28, 2017 by way0utwest

We have a lot of different database platforms to choose from when building software. Most of us reading this are SQL Server users, and likely relationally biased. However, key-value stores, document databases, graph databases, and more are out there. If … Continue reading →

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