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.

Many SQL Server operations can often be made faster by taking advantage of effective clustered indexes. It should be understood that this combination of a non-clustered and clustered index on the same ...

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 ...

Non-clustered indexes can be numerous in SQL Server 2008 I remember from my Sybase days that SQL Server tables could support up to 255 indexes. One clustered index and 254 non-clustered indexes.

It really is going to come down to how many nonclustered indexes you have on the table, how many transactions per second are writing to the table and how the SQL Server's storage is configured.

In the operational analytics department, the non-clustered variety of Columnstore indexes (NCCIs), introduced in SQL Server 2012, can now be built and rebuilt without taking the tables they index ...

Wondering if anyone can help out with a deadlock problem we are experiencing. Our set up is SQL Server 7 (no SP) running on NT4 (SP6a) -- we cannot update this any time soon. When we run multiple ...

Non-clustered index corruption leads to incorrect reading of the SQL database query or multiple read operations on the same value. SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent ...