A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

Developers working with SQL Server often treat indexing as a DBA's domain--something happening "under the hood" that doesn't require much attention unless performance takes a hit. But ignoring the ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

In an earlier tip I discussed how indexes can speed up processing. It's only fair that I also talk about when indexes don't help. First: Because indexes don't always help but do always increase the ...

The database will be SQL server 7/2000 and will have about 2-3 million entries in the table.<P>Caeles: If you have to add a bunch of data to a table, and the index is on, it will reindex after every ...