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 ...

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.

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

Getting the CREATE INDEX statement is as simple as adding in one more column, shown below, to this query which then generates the T-SQL CREATE INDEX statement. 'USE [' + DB_NAME(c.database_id) + ']; ...

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 ...