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Indexes on VARCHAR Columns

April 25, 2016 · Klaus Aschenbrenner · Leave a Comment

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance tuning on SQL Server.) Years ago I wrote about how SQL Server stores VARCHAR columns in the Navigation Structure of an ...

Disabling Clustered Indexes in SQL Server – a really good idea?

April 11, 2016 · Klaus Aschenbrenner · 10 Comments

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance tuning on SQL Server.) Last week I taught an internal SQL Server Performance Tuning course to a customer in Switzerland. As ...

Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a non-unique clustered index

September 7, 2010 · Klaus Aschenbrenner ·

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance tuning on SQL Server.) In the last weblog post I have talked about the differences in unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes ...

Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index

August 31, 2010 · Klaus Aschenbrenner ·

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance tuning on SQL Server.) In the last weblog post I have talked about the difference of unique and non-unique clustered indexes. ...

Unique/Non-Unique Clustered Indexes

August 19, 2010 · Klaus Aschenbrenner ·

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance tuning on SQL Server.) In the last blog post I have talked about unique/non-unique clustered indexes on a heap table. A ...

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