SQL Server 2014 will offer Clustered Columnstore Indexes. These will offer the performance and compression benefits of column-oriented storage without the need to restrict the underlying table to ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

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.

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of ...

Non-clustered index corruption leads to incorrect reading of the SQL database query or multiple read operations on the same value. SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent ...

In SQL Server 2012, the columnstore indexes are non-clustered and cannot be updated other than by rebuilding the entire index. SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which ...

I'm trying to migrate a server that currently houses SQL and MSMQ. As far as I can tell, MSMQ is only present so that a sproc on SQL Server can send messages to a different messaging queue on ...