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You can create clustered indexes on tables by using [!INCLUDE ssManStudioFull] or [!INCLUDE tsql]. With few exceptions, every table should have a clustered index. Besides improving query performance, ...
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.
Denny's SQL Secrets Are Too Many SQL Server Indexes Hurting Your Performance? The question leads to an even more important question: do your users care? By Denny Cherry 07/16/2014 ...
--This script gives you a per-table count of non-clustered indexes for all databases on an instance, sorted descending by the highest number of indexes. --This is helpful when looking for excessive ...
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 ...
SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which become the primary storage method for the table. These can be updated, but cannot be combined with any other indexes.
Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever.