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Learn the basics of clustered and non-clustered indexes in SQL, and when to use each one. Find out how to optimize your queries with examples and tips.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
--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 ...
A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.