Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) shares some insight about early changes to Plan Explorer that help to provide you with the most accurate information we can.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) revisits the impact that eliminating DONE_IN_PROC messages using SET NOCOUNT ON may or may not have on query performance.
Erin Stellato (@erinstellato) looks into sparse columns in SQL Server – the changes to space requirements and the impact on the write portion of your workload.
Tim Radney of SQLskills gives an overview of his approach to SQL Server performance tuning, from system configuration, to I/O latency, to high cost queries.
Tim Radney (@tradney) of SQLskills shows how to measure your network so you have more ammo to take to your network team when there is a performance issue.
