How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and ... substitute the name of your table for "table_name." For example, ...

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 ...

For example, sys.indexes show column store indexes as type = 6 and type_desc as ‘NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE.’ There also are two new system tables, sys.column_store_segments and ...

To see how each DICTIONARY table is defined, submit a DESCRIBE TABLE statement. After you know how a table is defined, you can use its column names in a subsetting WHERE clause to get more specific ...

This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

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 ...