Launch Database Engine Tuning Advisor, and log into an instance of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion]. For more information, see Start the Database Engine Tuning Advisor earlier in this article. On the General tab ...

Jinpeng Zhang is a database engineer on the storage team at PingCAP.. Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server ...

Automatic tuning will be turned on by default for the SQL Database service running in the Microsoft Azure cloud, starting early next year. Though it's been available since early last year, automatic ...

The Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) that is part of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an automated physical database design tool that significantly advances the state-of-the-art in several ways. First, DTA ...

SQL performance tuning, which 78% of database developers say they do manually, can take up large amounts of time; 73% cited it as their biggest time commitment. Automating SQL performance tuning with ...

As any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect example.

Andy Pavlo: Researchers have been working on autonomous databases for decades.Ever since the first relational database management systems (RDBMSs) in the 1970s, people have dreamed of having a system ...

This article provides an overview of the algorithm used by the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) in Microsoft SQL Server. While many aspects of these algorithms have been described in published ...