Learn how to drop an index in SQL Server using T-SQL or SSMS, what to consider before dropping an index, and how to monitor the effects on your database.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

To analyze which indexes are missing or slowing you down, run sp_BlitzIndex. To find out why the server is slow right now, run sp_BlitzFirst. To install, download the latest release ZIP, then run the ...

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.

SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built with the company’s Heckaton set of technologies, first developed by Microsoft Research.