As part of my weekly maintenance routine, I rebuild the indexes on several of my larger high-activity tables. I'd like to try and get an idea of just how long the rebuilds take. The rebuilds are ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

Before SQL Server 2005, we would always use DBCC SHOWCONTIG to identify fragmentation in indexes. We would use DBCC INDEXDEFRAG to perform an online defrag and DBCC DBREINDEX to rebuild indexes ...