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 ...

The Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) that is part of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an automated physical database design tool that significantly advances the state-of-the-art in several ways. First, DTA ...

Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2. SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier ...