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 ...

So the clustered index is really the table itself. As we update data in the table, SQL Server has to keep each index up to date with the new data. So while many indexes may speed up overall read time, ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

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Database performance is rarely a single "fix it and forget it" task. SQL Server workloads shift over time. A sluggish ...

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.