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 ...

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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.

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 ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work.

I'm currently working on a particular table that is about 7 million records. Size on disk is about 2GB. It so happens that the way this is indexed, The size of the index is about double the size of ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...