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 ...

I'm currently working on a particular table that is about 7 million records. Size on disk is about 2GB. It so happens that the way this is indexed, The size of the index is about double the size ...

It really is going to come down to how many nonclustered indexes you have on the table, how many transactions per second are writing to the table and how the SQL Server's storage is configured.

There are only seven of the 27 columns in the table in this query, so those other columns do not need to be read. The other performance benefit of columnstore indexes in SQL Server provide is ...

The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest position since the rankings ...

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.

Other ways include: the DATASETS procedure in base SAS software the INDEX= option (when you are creating a SAS table) the SQL procedure in base SAS software. There are two types of indexes: simple ...

Analyze database contents using basic, intermediate and advanced SQL statement syntax and usage. Demonstrate capability to query data from multiple tables using SQL JOINS. Create and modify database ...