Creates a relational index on a table or view. Also called a rowstore index because it is either a clustered or nonclustered B-tree index. You can create a rowstore index before there is data in the ...

Create a temporal table with a default history table Creating a temporal table with a default history table is a convenient option when you want to control naming, and still rely on the system to ...

Create an approximate index on a vector column to improve performance of nearest neighbors searches. To learn more about how vector indexing and vector search works, and the differences between exact ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals. Here ...