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.

New method: DROP IF EXISTS supported in SQL Server 2016 and above version To drop a database object in SQL Server 2016 and above we need to execute a simple statement.

I have a value that I want to do delete everything from a table that contains this value in a field. Also, each one of those that I delete has an ID that is a foreign key value in another table. I ...

Examples in this section demonstrate how to delete rows from a remote table by using a linked server or a rowset function to reference the remote table. A remote table exists on a different server or ...

The [!INCLUDE adaptersql] discovers a set of basic Insert, Select, Update, and Delete operations on SQL Server database tables and views. By using these operations, you can perform simple SQL Insert, ...

How to Delete the Microsoft SQL Server Directory. When you uninstall Microsoft SQL Server 11.0 from your business computers, its folder might not be removed because some of its files contain ...

Memory-optimized tables must fully reside in memory and can’t be paged out. Unlike disk-based tables where insufficient memory can slowdown an application, the impact to memory-optimized tables upon ...

In SQL Server 2014, memory-optimized tables do not support cross-database transactions. This means you cannot access another database from the same transaction or the same query that also accesses a ...