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 ...

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 ...

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they're treated as 'set it and forget it' structures. As the data landscape evolves-with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...