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 ...

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 ...

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

BANGALORE, INDIA: SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes ...

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

In SQL Server 2012, the columnstore indexes are non-clustered and cannot be updated other than by rebuilding the entire index. SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which ...

An index stores both the values of a table's columns and a system of directions that enable access to rows in that table by index value. Defining an index on a column or set of columns enables SAS, ...

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database ( ...