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 work ...

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 ...

As part of my weekly maintenance routine, I rebuild the indexes on several of my larger high-activity tables. I'd like to try and get an idea of just how long the rebuilds take. The rebuilds are ...