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 ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes (NCC Index) are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

SQL Server 2016 partially compensates for this limitation by allowing one of those eight indexes to be a Columnstore Index. But there are rules that you need to follow: ...

In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced the Non-Clustered Columnstore index which was perfectly designed for large Fact tables in a Data Warehouse and provided an order of magnitude performance ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

This number is often as small as 20 percent -- if SQL Server has to look at more than 20 percent of your rows, SQL Server will decide that it's faster just to look at all of the rows in the table. An ...

SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which become the primary storage method for the table. These can be updated, but cannot be combined with any other indexes.

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...