Live! 360 talks about the "best and worst practices for indexing tables within your SQL Server 2000-2016 database." What is the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing any IT pro can do when it comes to ...

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored ... and a nonclustered index as a book’s index. Basically, the Database Consistency Checker (DBCC) provides a set of commands (many of which ...

This allows the database engine to evaluate against ... come with some dedicated indexing structures, the way SQL Server has XML indexes, allowing faster queries against large volumes of JSON ...

With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced new column store capabilities into its database. But that column store was an in-memory index. With SQL Server 2014, this column store becomes updatable ...

If you have too many indexes, the whole database can slow down under heavy ... I’ll explain this by using examples in DDL, using SQL Server syntax. The short version of this is fairly simple.

PAGEIOLATCH_*—Buffer latches, including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database ... Disabling unused indexes will ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...