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 ...

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.

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 ...

Indexes in SQL Server can greatly enhance the performance of queries, especially on large datasets. Indexes are similar to the index in a book – they help locate data faster. In SQL Server, there are ...

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