SQL has faded in popularity as noted in the TIOBE Index as people working in AI switch to NoSQL databases.

‘Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. 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 ...

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 ...

Index in sql can be thought of as index of a book. suppose, we have a book of 50 pages and we don't have indexes. now if we have to navigate to a random topic then we have to start with first page ...

The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to ...