We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

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.

By querying these dynamic management views using a query similar to the one shown below you can see all of the indexes which the SQL Server recommends creating. Do NOT simply create these 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 ...

Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all indexes in a table. Oracle users typically rebuild each index in a table individually. Microsoft SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes help SQL developers and ...

If you omit an index for a frequent query, the whole database can slow down under heavy read loads. ... Supports Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL, IBM DB2, and PostgreSQL. Free.