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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2016 partially compensates for this limitation by allowing one of those eight indexes to be a Columnstore Index. But there are rules that you need to follow: ...

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 ...

SQL had a somewhat unusual journey in the TIOBE Index. In 2004, due to debates about whether SQL counted as a programming language at all, Jansen removed it from the index.

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.

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 ...