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.

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 ...

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I'm trying to figure out whether to kill a large series of update operations on a table after discovering that the table doesn't have any of the usual indexes on it. But I can't decide or find ...

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Hey All,<BR><BR>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 ...