This article provides information to collect a performance baseline as a series of best practices and guidelines to optimize performance for your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). There is ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

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When users say, “SQL Server is slow”, they’re not talking about wait stats, memory grants, or disk latency. They’re talking about the symptoms of what is causing the server to run slow. As DBAs and ...

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...

I am trying to monitor a remote server, and log to SQL server. When I go to start the log I get this: The (name of my log) log or alert has not started. Refresh the log or alert list to view current ...