So a view is just virtual table it does not store any data, by default. However, when you create an index, on a view, the view gets materialized. this means, the view is now, capable fo storing data.

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 ...

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'm using bcp to dump large quantities of data into a table that has several indexed views built on top of it. It seems to work fine for a while, but on ...

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 work ...