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 ...

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.

Indexes in SQL Server can greatly enhance the performance of queries, especially on large datasets. Indexes are similar to the index in a book – they help locate data faster. In SQL Server, there are ...

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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 ...

@BADIndex BIT = 1, -- Set to 1 to include analysis of bad non-clustered indexes @MissingIndex BIT = 0, -- Set to 1 to include analysis of missing indexes @IndexFragmentation BIT = 0, -- This will take ...