Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), a graphical user interface (GUI) tool, you can drop an index in SQL Server. To do so, open SSMS and connect to your database server.

Denny's SQL Secrets When Should You Create New SQL Server Indexes? Here's how to spot when new indexes are needed to improve performance. By Denny Cherry 04/11/2014 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...

i.index_id, i.name order by object_name (i.object_id) -------------------------------------------------------- -- missing index query -------------------------------------------------------- select db ...

SQL Server 2016 partially compensates for this limitation by allowing one of those eight indexes to be a Columnstore Index. But there are rules that you need to follow: ...

When you create the view’s index, the data selected by the view is both materialized and kept persistent and up-to-date by SQL Server 2000. Because the data is persistent, further ...