PowerShell & SQL Server: Run In Parallel – Collect SQL Results With PRINT Output From Across Your SQL Farm – Fast!

If you have been working with PowerShell and SQL Server for a while now, you know that it is not difficult to capture the PRINT statement output as VERBOSE output (which can then be redirected to a variable or file). You also know that it is not too difficult to run SQL in parallel against …

Oracle PL/SQL – Quantify Code Performance For Comparison Of Different Approaches – Tom Kyte’s “runstats”

Is my PL/SQL code going to perform better? I have rewritten my Oracle code. Now, how do I tell if my coding approach A is better than coding approach B? If someone were to ask you the above question, typically, you would give the following answers If one approach is faster than the other, that …