When I worked for Sybase, much of the advertising we published was based on the TPC performance benchmark figures of Sybase SQL Server compared to the competition ...

Maintaining high server performance and appropriate scale to keep up with growing computing demands doesn't happen automatically. Data center administrators must continuously track performance and ...

Will you reboot all servers between tests, or cycle SQL Server, or perhaps just flush the caches and performance metrics counters and then restart the test? In summary, you’re ready for a real ...

Ok, let's say I have three different queries that all return the same result set. One uses a temp table, the other a correlated subquery, and the third is just a HUGE set of union queries, etc... all ...