IDERA has released SQL Query Store Optimizer, a new tool in its portfolio of database monitoring tools to help database administrators (DBAs) manage and troubleshoot SQL Query Stores. The free tool ...

For all the times you don't have SQL Server Manager, here's a tool that's easy to get for prowling databases and issuing SQL commands.

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.

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Redmond Review SQL Server Data Tools: a Model Toolset Using SSDT means we don't just shout orders at the database; instead, we plan what we're going to say. By Andrew J. Brust 12/01/2011 For almost 13 ...

Microsoft has released a public preview of SQL Operations Studio, a cross platform tool for working with SQL Server. This product is based on the existing Visual Studio Code editor and uses the ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

New tool from startup Vembu Technologies is designed to relieve DBAs of the need to port SQL queries.

Microsoft released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.

Developers today use databases almost like languages. They might start on a good old relational database like MySQL, but then requirements shift a bit, so they sprinkle a little MongoDB on top. The ...