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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.

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 work ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...

Because the actual data is also stored in the clustered index, the correct analogy for this type of index is the book’s table of contents plus the pages themselves i.e. the whole book. So the ...

As reported earlier today by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacturing, and will be generally available on April 1st. Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice ...

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.

SQL Server 2012 introduces a lot of new features which, like the columnstore indexes I discussed last month, are inspiring a lot of excitement in the user community ...