Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

I've spent a large portion of my DBA career trying to optimize indexes and the statistics about the data in them in an effort to get the database engine to generate an optimal query plan.

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but require more powerful and reliable database functions, try these for a start. In Excel, the INDEX function returns an item from a specific position (in a list, table, database). The MATCH ...