New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution--turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...

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 of ...

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I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes data ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.