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 ...

Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM ...

As with everything, there are trade-offs when it comes to indexes. That said, this discussion focuses on query optimi­zation by looking at table indexes or the lack thereof. A sign of a good database ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

The fifth version of the leading native graph database has been released with additional features such as an Ops Manager and the ability to continuously provide updates to self-managed users. Neo4j, ...

All About AI has shared a great example of how you can improve the performance of Meta’s Llama 3 8B large language model with just 15 lines of code together with Ollama and Groq. The key to this ...

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 ...