First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance ... or a handful of pages in a database is called a seek in most database engines. It is very efficient ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow ... for a nonclustered index. Reducing the number of executions of a nonclustered index seek involves looking at the properties ...

In SQL Server 2022, we have a new IS DISTINCT FROM and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM syntax that not only handles both NULL and non-NULL values, but allows the execution plan to use an index seek ...

In fact, a view really doesn’t do anything until you query it. In SQL Server 2000 and 2005, you have the ability to add indexes to views. But, if a view is just a stored query definition in the ...