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 ...

Missing Indexes Dynamic Management Views SQL Server includes a set of dynamic management views which tell you what indexes the SQL Server database engine thinks need to be added.

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

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

10) Examine Your Apps With SQL Server Profiler Allocate a few hours at the end of the development cycle to run a trace in SQL Server Profiler and capture your application's workload. This lets you ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...