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 ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...

The latest solutions in big data processing demand working with increasingly large amounts of data in ever shorter periods of time. In 2012, MS SQL introduced the ColumnStore (CS) Index. It was ...

Spatial Cartridge provides sample SQL script files to show how to use dynamic SQL in a PL/SQL block to create layer tables for spatially indexed data or to administer and manipulate all the partitions ...

Then, after applying your index, run the query twice again and compare the results of the second run. If you don't get a difference that you can measure with your wrist watch, drop the index: SQL ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

SQL has faded in popularity as noted in the TIOBE Index as people working in AI switch to NoSQL databases.