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Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all indexes in a table. Oracle users typically rebuild each index in a table individually.
Here are the main changes we will see with SQL Server 2016: Previously nonclustered CS Indexes were read-only; in 2016, rowstore tables will be able to have one updateable nonclustered CS Index.
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 ...
A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.
SQL has faded in popularity as noted in the TIOBE Index as people working in AI switch to NoSQL databases.
‘Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.