[Database Series 07] Understand Indexes! Why the Same SQL Can Have Vastly Different Search Speeds

The theme for this session is database "indexes".Indexes are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when ...
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New In SQL Server 2012: Columnstore Indexes

SQL Server 2012 has a lot of metadata about columnstore indexes. For example, sys.indexes show column store indexes as type = 6 and type_desc as ‘NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE.’ There also are two new ...
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Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server

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 ...
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When Should You Create New SQL Server Indexes?

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 ...
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Chapter 3: Examples of SQL Server Implementations

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...
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T-SQL (Transact-SQL)

T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is a set of programming extensions from Sybase and Microsoft that add several features to the Structured Query Language (SQL), including ...