In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

This article explores the internals of materialized views and demonstrates how to precompute complex aggregates—having Oracle dynamically rewrite SQL to reference precomputed aggregate information.

Creating a database as you've described is a lot of work, and as others have mentioned their might be better alternatives than a relational database. (or at least the typical structure for a ...

Hello, I've got a bit of an unusual request, I want to create some duplicate rows in a SQL Server table. We have a WorkOrders table that has our customer orders in it. Every order has a WOID ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...