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 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 ...

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 SQL Server 2012, we introduced the memory optimized columnstore index. This resulted in huge query performance improvements but columnstore indexes had one significant disadvantage – they couldn’t ...

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 ...

Without indexes, SQL Server has to perform a full table scan every time you query data. Index JSON properties by using computed columns. ... If you use expressions with the JSON_VALUE function, as ...