Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

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 ...

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 ...

Scaling distributed SQL queries needs more performance and efficiency in the agentic AI era. It’s a challenge Cockroach is looking to solve.

Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a webinar with Gary Jerep, solutions consultant, Quest ...

I'm familiar with the process and have a script that will touch every table in a specified database with the DBCC REINDEX command, however I'm having an unusual problem.<BR><BR>Due to the size of ...

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.

SAS maintains indexes for all changes to the table, whether the changes originate from PROC SQL or from some other source. Therefore, if you alter a column's definition or update its values, the same ...