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 ...

The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

Missing Indexes Dynamic Management Views SQL Server includes a set of dynamic management views which tell you what indexes the SQL Server database engine thinks need to be added.

Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

To run your SQL Pass-Through views for the MS SQL Server, you are encouraged, but not required, to create a data source name. You can use the ODBC administrator to create it. Refer to Data Source ...

What does your view look like? SQL Server doesn't like inserting values into "complex" views, iirc.

SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

Visual Studio 2022 has been out for some eight months now, but it still lacks full support for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), a top feature request.