The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to ...

The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server creates table indexes as either indexes or constraints. [! INCLUDE ssNoVersion] gives constraint-creation privilege to the table owner, database owner, and members of ...

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

CREATE XML INDEX (Transact-SQL) [!INCLUDE SQL Server SQL Database] Creates an XML index on a specified table. An index can be created before there is data in the table. XML indexes can be created on ...

Columnstore indexes are available in CTP 3 of SQL Server Code Name “Denali.” You can create a columnstore index on your table by using a slight variation on existing syntax for creating indexes.

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...