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 ...

If you find yourself taking the same subset of data from a big table and running smaller queries against it, you can speed things up for yourself and others by persisting the subset elsewhere, and ...

Replace "new_table" with the name of the table to create, and replace "old_table" with the name of the table to select from. The INTO clause behaves the same as CREATE TABLE in other SQL environments.

It's possible that, once saved to disk, these tables could be used "as is" in my data warehouse or transactional system. Alternatively, I could also use the Table variables I've created here in a SQL ...

Any table they reference cannot be dropped without first dropping all of the stored procedures that reference it. Unfortunately normal stored procedures don’t support this option in SQL Server 2014.

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.

Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the changes that the rows in the table go through, storing old versions of the data in a "historical" table ...

Connect to your SQL Server instance, then in the object explorer pane drill down and highlight a container, such as Tables. Then click View => Object Explorer Details from the top menu bar.