Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

3. Create a keyword list and answer your list of questions To further expand on the previous point, start answering every question under every category (refer to your taxonomy structure).

For this example, I’m choosing the AdventureWorksLT sample database as the source (Figure B). The next step is to create a server to host your SQL database.

With so much buzz happening around Cloud and its associated benefits, consolidating your database estate and infrastructure to take advantage of it only makes sense. But with so much to think about, ...