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 ...

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.

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 ...

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: ...

To analyze which indexes are missing or slowing you down, run sp_BlitzIndex. To find out why the server is slow right now, run sp_BlitzFirst. To install, download the latest release ZIP, then run the ...

To analyze which indexes are missing or slowing you down, run sp_BlitzIndex. To find out why the server is slow right now, run sp_BlitzFirst. To install, download the latest release ZIP, then run the ...

This number is often as small as 20 percent -- if SQL Server has to look at more than 20 percent of your rows, SQL Server will decide that it's faster just to look at all of the rows in the table. An ...