I've set up a Full-Text Catalog on a table in our MS SQL Server 2000 database. I ran a full population job to initialize the catalog after setting it up. I then created a schedule to run a daily ...

Custom proximity search, a new feature in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search, is facilitated using the NEAR operator.

ColumnarStore can offer performance improvements over traditional tables, but aren’t always faster. Aleksandr Shavlyuga explores the power, and limitations of SQL Server’s ColumnStore Indexes.

Which raises the question: Why is SQL Server ignoring the index? If your table has a lot of rows and SQL Server is ignoring your index, typically the reason is that your index isn't subdividing the ...