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 ...

Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...

For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

Database performance is rarely a single "fix it and forget it" task. SQL Server workloads shift over time. A sluggish ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...