(You can see previous T-SQL Tuesday retrospectives by visiting this link.) In September 2010, Michael J. Swart (blog | Twitter) invited us to talk about indexes. Indexes are strange things. You never need to explicitly… T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #010: Indexes
After last week’s post about using WITH (NOEXPAND) to query indexed views even on SQL Server Enterprise Edition, this week is a short but interesting side-road into deterministic values, and why it is important to… Using indexed views? What is an imprecise or non-deterministic convert?
Today after fighting with designing a view that let me create a clustered index on it (indexed views — also known as materialized views — are awesome in the right context!), I kept running into the same… Using indexed views? Don’t forget this important tip.
A quick post this week, since it’s that time of the year when people do gift exchanges and put up colourful lights. Here goes: If we need to remove an unused index, we should disable… Disable, don’t delete those indexes
I’ve been working with SQL Server for many years now, and up until recently, I assumed that rebuilding any clustered index would cause non-clustered indexes to be rebuilt as well, because the non-clustered index includes… Does rebuilding my clustered index also rebuild my non-clustered indexes?
Many smart people have spoken about clustering keys and primary keys before, so here’s a less smart take on the topic. Let’s define some things first: Clustered Index – the column (or columns) by which… On clustered indexes, clustering keys and primary keys