This topic describes how to modify an index in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. Important Indexes created as the result of a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE constraint cannot be ...

Traditionally, businesses have had separate systems for operational (that is, OLTP) and analytics workloads. For such systems, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) jobs regularly move the data from the ...

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 ...

New Tool Analyzes SQL Server Master Database File (MDF) and Index Fragmentation, Totally Automates End-to-End Defragmentation There is no other product in the industry that allows me to address Master ...