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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...