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 ...

Dave the DBA adds an index to a table to improve a report query that takes over an hour to run. Now it takes 10 minutes. Dave is a hero. But not for long. Later in the week, he'll find himself ...

As any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect example.

Each training example includes schema context (Option A approach), teaching the model to generate SQL given schema + natural language query. This matches production usage where relevant table schemas ...

In this webcast, Dell Software's Bert Scalzo, Oracle ACE and member of the Toad development team, will demonstrate several tuning and optimization examples for problematic SQL using Toad for Oracle.