A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

New features for Query Analyzer under SQL Server 2000 Usability, customizability, and control * Current connection’s login, SPID, and server version appear in the query window’s status bar ...

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

In SQL Server 2014, this check would be conducted by joining to each table that references the table in question. As you can imagine, this can quickly become quite expensive.

Denny's SQL Secrets Troubleshoot Slow-Running Queries In SQL Server Denny breaks down how to identify and fix speed issues in multiple versions of SQL Server. By Denny Cherry 12/11/2013 ...

SQL Server 2022 has more Intelligent Query Processing features to speed up existing workloads and database applications with what Khan calls “minimal implementation effort.” ...

However, there are any number of queries in any application that SQL Server may never see again (at least in, for example, the next 24 hours). The plans for these "one-time" queries are taking up ...

In fact, SQL Server tries to plan only queries that aren't in stored procedures if they're (a) worth planning and (b) are running for the first time. Over time, as plans build up in the cache, only a ...

In this on-demand session, we'll look at the entire SQL Server holistically, from the "hardware" allocated to the machine down to individual SQL Server query plans. We'll cover what tools are provided ...