Learn how to start and use Database Engine Tuning Advisor in SQL Server to create workloads, tune databases, and create XML input files. A user that has system administrator permissions must perform ...

Database Engine Tuning Advisor provides a graphical user interface (GUI) based way to view tuning sessions and tuning recommendation reports. This lesson shows you how to start the tool and how to ...

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 ...