A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...

I need to delete a number of rows from a table. Should I have indexing on for the columns that I'm using to choose what to delete?

I've got a stored procedure that runs a FTI query against a table. If there's no activity on the server for a while then the first time that procedure is called it times out; subsequent calls work ...