Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of ...

SQL Server 2014 will offer Clustered Columnstore Indexes. These will offer the performance and compression benefits of column-oriented storage without the need to restrict the underlying table to ...

Non-clustered indexes can be numerous in SQL Server 2008 I remember from my Sybase days that SQL Server tables could support up to 255 indexes. One clustered index and 254 non-clustered indexes.

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

MS documentation refers to this even, but it gets super messy because contextually you get Hyper-v and VMware etc, virtualization of cluster nodes mixed in with cluster virtualization in the ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

In related news, Red Gate will be hosting a live discussion between Oracle Ace Director Jonathan Lewis and Microsoft SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey on Oracle Heap Tables versus SQL Server Clustered ...