As you've seen there are several things that you need to look for when deciding what indexes should be added to the SQL Server database engine. While Microsoft has tried to make it easier to find ...

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SQL Server 2014 CTP1 introduced hash indexes for memory-optimized tables. Hash indexes are very efficient for point lookups, when you know exactly the value you are looking for. However, they do not ...

When this happens it is logged for every single index that is being written to. So for a table with nine non-clustered indexes on it there are 10 writes to the transaction log.

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. Microsoft SQL Server ...

The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server exposes the IIndexDefinition::CreateIndex function, which allows consumers to define new indexes on SQL Server tables. The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server exposes the ...

SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes help SQL developers and ...

---> Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Online index operations can only be performed in Enterprise edition of SQL Server. at ...