I published the semantic model from my last post (which has four text columns CustomerId and CustomerName from the Customers table, CustomerId and TransactionId from the Orders table, none of which ...

There are a couple of flaws in the design of this semantic model that either individually or combined cause that warning message to appear. Remember that it only appears when Copilot thinks it needs ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

When an index facet is changed (e.g. the fill factor), EF currently generates a migration that drops and then recreates the index. First, we should add support for ALTER INDEX, which would be the ...

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...