In enterprise environments, database performance optimization is not just about writing efficient queries — it’s equally about maintaining the underlying structures that make those queries perform ...

With filtered rowstore indexes, SQL Server can build a nonclustered index that covers only the rows a query is likely to read. That changes the size of the index, the statistics attached to it, and ...

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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...