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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

SQL Server now provides you with a choice. You can build columnstore indexes on your big data warehouse tables and get the benefits of column store technology and batch mode processing without giving ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance] Creates a new secondary selective XML index on a single path that is already indexed by an existing selective XML index. You can ...

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...