Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

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 ...

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

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

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

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database ( ...

Hey All,Got a question about Full text indexes and triggers. I've got a full text index called 'FTindex' set up and it works fine. What I want to do is make a an insert, update, delete trigger so ...