One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

Query Store (QS): Introduced in SQL Server 2016, QS is similar to an airplane flight recorder with a specific focus on query plans and their performance. QS captures the history of queries, their ...

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

Run the SQL Profiler tool and capture events while reproducing the timeout. That might help diagnose whether it's SQL Server that's causing all the delay (e.g. query processing) or a network delay ...