SQL Server Performance Consulting Training and Monitoring | Darling Data

# Darling Data > SQL Server Consulting, Education, and Training ## Core Content - [Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis, Right In Your Browser](https://erikdarling.com/free-sql-server-query-plan-analysis-right-in-your-browser/): SQL Server insights from Erik Darling. Want to get better at performance tuning, indexing, or query tuning? Try one of my online SQL courses. - [Making A Website For Tracking My GitHub Stats](https://erikdarling.com/making-a-website-for-tracking-my-github-stats/): SQL Server insights from Erik Darling. Want to get better at performance tuning, indexing, or query tuning? Try one of my online SQL courses. - [How to Add Clippy Support to SSMS](https://erikdarling.com/how-to-add-clippy-support-to-ssms/): Step 1: Install the Clippy digital assistant SSMS add-on Go to github and grab the code. Clippy wants you to be - [Hyper-threading on Azure VMs is a SQL Licensing Trap](https://erikdarling.com/hyper-threading-on-azure-vms-is-a-sql-licensing-trap/): Azure VMs with hyper-threading enabled are sized according to logical cores instead of physical cores. These logical cores can perform - [Double Your Core Count With Azure SQL Managed Instance](https://erikdarling.com/double-your-core-count-with-azure-sql-managed-instance/): I'm going to open with a perhaps controversial statement: "when you buy 4 vCores on the Azure SQL Managed Instance ## Key Topics - [SQL Server](https://erikdarling.com/sql-server/) - [Erik Darling](https://erikdarling.com/tag/erik-darling/) - [Erik Darling Data](https://erikdarling.com/tag/erik-darling-data/) - [SQL](https://erikdarling.com/tag/sql/) - [SQL Server](https://erikdarling.com/tag/sql-server/) # Last updated: 2026-04-15T04:37:37+00:00