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 ...

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 take several seconds; with the ...

It really is going to come down to how many nonclustered indexes you have on the table, how many transactions per second are writing to the table and how the SQL Server's storage is configured.

Creates indexes on columns in tables. Restriction: You cannot use CREATE INDEX on a table accessed via an engine that does not support UPDATE processing. an IN subquery where the column in the inner ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.