If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even ...

SQL Server 2005 or later script to generate TRUNCATE statements for all tables. Anyone that has tried this on anything but the most simplistic database has found, as I did, that this won't work.

Your upcoming session at SQL Server Live!/Live! 360 talks about the "best and worst practices for indexing tables within your SQL Server 2000-2016 database." ...

Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all indexes in a table. Oracle users typically rebuild each index in a table individually.