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

The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server does not support the OLE DB feature of dropping all indexes on a table when *pIndexID* is null. If *pIndexID* is null, E_INVALIDARG is returned.

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.

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

SQL Server Index Manager This application was written due to the fact that I'm needing to be able to manage the databases that the applications I support utilize. In order for the databases to be as ...

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.

SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.