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 ...

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...

There are some SQL Server bugs that you can only trip if you have a specific indexing situation. For example, this article lists a few MERGE bugs and some of them require specific indexing situations.