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 as ...
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You can also create filtered indexes on sparse columns so that only the non-NULL values are saved in the index. An example of this is where a Product table supports many products but only a small ...