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 ...

Many SQL Server operations can often be made faster by taking advantage of effective clustered indexes. It should be understood that this combination of a non-clustered and clustered index on the same ...

Here are the main changes we will see with SQL Server 2016: Previously nonclustered CS Indexes were read-only; in 2016, rowstore tables will be able to have one updateable nonclustered CS Index.

Creates indexes on columns in tables. Restriction: You cannot use CREATE INDEX on a table accessed via an engine that does not support UPDATE processing. an IN subquery where the column in the inner ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. 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 ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...