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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There's two answers to this question, the short answer and the long answer (which includes a follow-up question). The short answer is yes For the longer answer, let's start with the follow-up question ...

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.

--This script gives you a per-table count of non-clustered indexes for all databases on an instance, sorted descending by the highest number of indexes. --This is helpful when looking for excessive ...

Indexes in SQL Server can greatly enhance the performance of queries, especially on large datasets. Indexes are similar to the index in a book – they help locate data faster. In SQL Server, there are ...

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 data ...