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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

I have a simple (i think) question, but I'm being retarded today and can't remember the answer.<BR><BR>If I create an index on a table using two columns, but then only include 1 column in the Where ...

I'm familiar with the process and have a script that will touch every table in a specified database with the DBCC REINDEX command, however I'm having an unusual problem.<BR><BR>Due to the size of the ...