Denny's SQL Secrets When Should You Create New SQL Server Indexes? Here's how to spot when new indexes are needed to improve performance. By Denny Cherry 04/11/2014 ...

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 ...

When the problem is on the back end, you can resolve blocking problems by ensuring SQL Server creates the appropriate indexes on your databases. You may also want to perform query tuning as necessary.

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...

This number is often as small as 20 percent -- if SQL Server has to look at more than 20 percent of your rows, SQL Server will decide that it's faster just to look at all of the rows in the table. An ...

When you create the view’s index, the data selected by the view is both materialized and kept persistent and up-to-date by SQL Server 2000. Because the data is persistent, further ...

SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore Index stores data for columns you designate and then joins those database columns to give you a read-only, column-based index into the data (traditional indexes are ...

SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which become the primary storage method for the table. These can be updated, but cannot be combined with any other indexes.

Microsoft’s July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 137 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in SQL Server, Netlogon, Office, and the .NET Framework.