The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to as ...

SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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 work ...

This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

Hey All,<BR><BR>Got a question about Full text indexes and triggers. I've got a full text index called 'FTindex' set up and it works fine. What I want to do is make a an insert, update, delete trigger ...

I would probably create an index on each, and then add whatever columns they need to *return* from their search as "included columns." (covering indexes)<BR><BR>In other words, if they're going to ...

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 take several seconds; with the ...