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 ...
New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution--turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...
I'm currently working on a particular table that is about 7 million records. Size on disk is about 2GB. It so happens that the way this is indexed, The size of the index is about double the size of ...
Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes ...
Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they’re treated as “set it and forget it” structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...
March 2026 TIOBE Index stays largely steady, with SQL and R swapping spots, as Paul Jansen explains why the index still ...
While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.