Denny's SQL Secrets. Are Too Many SQL Server Indexes Hurting Your Performance? The question leads to an even more important question: do your users care?

Optimizing queries is essential for maximizing the performance of full-text indexes in SQL Server. Analyze query execution plans to identify areas for improvement, such as redundant or inefficient ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within SQL Server, indexes are used to speed up database operations, leading to high performance. The table can, therefore, have only one clustered index, which is usually done on the primary key. A ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

Troubleshooting SQL index performance on varchar columns 18 July, 2012. ... For each row, SQL Server would convert the index’s value to NVARCHAR, as seen in the index plan’s details around the ...