The key in all of these cases is to first identify the slowly running queries on SQL Servers. If you aren't that familiar with SQL Server, this may seem difficult, but it's actually pretty easy.

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“When SQL first came out in 1973 it was all about, hey, we want a natural language for query data and so SQL was kind of that natural language,” Gutmans said.

I remember writing SQL queries to pipe into my programs to make them run faster. It was faster because the program only consumed part of the table and didn’t have to process the whole thing.

The key in all of these cases is to first identify the slowly running queries on SQL Servers. If you aren't that familiar with SQL Server, this may seem difficult, but it's actually pretty easy.