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.

In this blog post, I demonstrate an advantage of being more explicit in typing when using Groovy SQL with an Oracle database to avoid a potential “Invalid column index” SQLException because I ...

SQL Server includes a set of dynamic management views which tell you what indexes the SQL Server database engine ... The code to create the missing indexes will be shown in the specific column.

What Are Index Key Columns? An index key column is the column used in the index, and it is what the optimizer considers when deciding if the index should be used. As well as fulfilling the WHERE ...

If you are creating an index on more than one column, index-name cannot be the same as any column in the table. table-name specifies a PROC SQL table. Indexes in PROC SQL: An index stores both the ...

This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...