How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, ... Launch SQL Server Management Studio.

Removing duplicates from a SQL Server table without a unique index: It’s a bit more difficult to remove duplicate rows or tables without a unique index. In this scenario, using a common table ...

SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes help SQL developers and ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] [!INCLUDEDriver_OLEDB_Download]. The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server exposes the IIndexDefinition::DropIndex function. This allows consumers to remove an index from a ...

ONLINE can't be set to ON when an index is being created on a local temporary table. [!NOTE] Online index rebuild can set the low_priority_lock_wait options described later in this section.

Columnstore indexes are available in CTP 3 of SQL Server Code Name “Denali.” You can create a columnstore index on your table by using a slight variation on existing syntax for creating indexes. To ...

In SQL Server 2012, we introduced the memory optimized columnstore index. This resulted in huge query performance improvements but columnstore indexes had one significant disadvantage – they couldn’t ...

A composite index is one index name that is defined for two or more columns. The columns can be specified in any order, and they can have different data types. A composite index name cannot match the ...