Learn how to use SQL partitioning, a technique that splits a table into smaller segments, to improve your database performance, availability, and management.

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 ...

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven't ...

SQL Server throws a wobbly when one tries to declare/create the same-named temporary table more than once in the same procedure - I guess the query analyser assumes that all temp table creations ...