The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to as ...

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SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

There's two answers to this question, the short answer and the long answer (which includes a follow-up question). The short answer is yes For the longer answer, let's start with the follow-up question ...

In an earlier tip I discussed how indexes can speed up processing. It's only fair that I also talk about when indexes don't help. First: Because indexes don't always help but do always increase the ...

I would probably create an index on each, and then add whatever columns they need to *return* from their search as "included columns." (covering indexes)<BR><BR>In other words, if they're going to ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...