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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It really is going to come down to how many nonclustered indexes you have on the table, how many transactions per second are writing to the table and how the SQL Server's storage is configured.

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

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

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