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 ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

Gregory Mikolay, a Senior Oracle Developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, outlines what individuals should expect over the next year across Oracle PL/SQL development, SQL performance tuning, and ...