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 ...

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 work ...

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For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they’re treated as “set it and forget it” structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...

This topic describes how to move an existing index from its current filegroup to a different filegroup in [!INCLUDE[ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] by ...

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