Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single ...

Pythian, already a Platinum member of the OPN, has met a series of demanding technical and business requirements to earn the specializations in Oracle Database 11g, Real Application Clusters (RAC), ...

Dubai - April 22 , 2012: ITS, a Platinum level member of Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Database and Oracle Database Performance Tuning ...

There are many reasons we all get tuning wrong at times. Here is a list of some I can think of (but is by all means not exhaustive): There are a lot of folks out there who make a living (many of them ...

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 ...