A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

The more nonclustered indexes that you have, the more writing to the disk needs to happen. Now for the follow-up question, do my end users care that it's slowing my SQL Server down? The answer ...

Reindexing tables is an important part of good database housekeeping, because it reorganizes the indexes and restores speedy access. Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all ...

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The query isn't anything fancy - it's just a select * from mytable where contains('') - and there's no load problems (the table only has ~90 rows, ~170 index entries and the server has plenty of ...