As the new year approaches, several IT analysts give their top cybersecurity strategy tips and key tasks to target to protect your company's IT assets.
You can analyze specific waits related to locking in your various SQL Server instances through a query against the sys.dm_os_wait_stats Dynamic Management View. We walk you through the process.
There will be more than 390 hyper-scale data centers in the world by the end of the year. An overwhelming majority of those facilities -- 44 percent -- are in the US, China being a distant second, with 8 percent, followed by Japan, UK, and Germany.
There are cases when SQL Server doesn’t normally realize it can rely on index order, but you can make the platform realize it with some extra manipulation and creativity. This article is the first in a two-part series in which I describe such...