Continuing the discussion on VLDBs and SQL Server we need to look at the daily load of millions of rows. As stated before, doing this to an existing table with indexes will force the system to do a ...

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SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.