It is usually a good idea to index columns that contain primary keys since they are unique and can often be referred to by row numbers. You can create a nonclustered index faster by selecting only the ...

Non-clustered indexes can be numerous in SQL Server 2008 I remember from my Sybase days that SQL Server tables could support up to 255 indexes. One clustered index and 254 non-clustered indexes. In ...

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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 as ...

We updated an app recently which imposed a lot more clustered indexes then had previously been there. We also have a weekly index rebuild which I'm assuming is now running super long because of those ...

As a Microsoft techie, my first reaction to the cover of this book was "ah, someone is finally covering the new SQL Variant Data Type in SQL Server 2000." That turned out not to be the case. What this ...