In SQL Server 2014, this check would be conducted by joining to each table that references the table in question. As you can imagine, this can quickly become quite expensive.

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.

SQL Server 2016’s new Temporal Table feature makes it easy to work with data that needs to be versioned.

The master database houses the greatest number of system tables, although every database on an instance of SQL Server also contains system tables. Note that all system tables are not truly tables.

It's the most critical part of performance-tuning SQL Server. If you are on a version of SQL Server older than 2016, you may want to look for a third-party performance tool to help you get this ...

In SQL Server 2014 there were a number of restrictions on memory-optimized tables: you couldn't alter their structure after they were created; many SQL operators weren't supported (Outer Joins, ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...