Oracle Corp. today unveiled MCP Server for Oracle Database, a new Model Context Protocol offering that brings artificial ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database ...

However, if you run this statement on an index which already exists, it does a bunch of work to re-create the index. Based on timing it isn't re-writing it to disk at least.

However, there apparently are cases where you can't alter the existing index, but need to recreate it. For those cases, CREATE INDEX with DROP EXISTING=ON would be better perf-wise than drop/create, e ...

Learn how to create a clustered index in SQL using the CREATE INDEX statement or a constraint, and some best practices and tips to optimize your index design.

Website indexing is one of the first steps (after crawling) in a process of how web pages are ranked and served as search engine results.

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

After earlier demonstrating how to create a new ledger and then populate the database with sample data, Brien Posey shows how to access that data, and how to create some new tables and indexes.

The process follows the same syntax as the generic Create Index Transact-SQL statements. The blog post also explains the best practices for using secondary indexes on column store tables.